Summary information

Study title

Ingrian-Finnish Remigrants 2008-2013

Creator

Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga (University of Helsinki. Faculty of Social Sciences)

Renvik, Tuuli Anna (University of Helsinki. Open University)

Study number / PID

FSD3315 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3315 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3315 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Individual datasets

Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.

Abstract

The study examined Ingrian-Finnish remigrants and their social adjustment in Finland. Main themes included, among others, the respondents' motives for moving from Russia to Finland, integration into Finnish society, social well-being, and perceptions of Finnish and Russian culture and values. The data consist of four surveys conducted between 2008 and 2013. The study follows the same remigrants throughout the surveys, and the first survey was conducted in Russia before the respondents moved to Finland. Some questions were repeated, although not always identically, in the four surveys. The surveys were conducted in Russian, but the data are in Finnish and English. Because the data do not contain all questions included in the questionnaire, only the questions included in the data are described here. The first three surveys were conducted as part of the INPRES (Intervening at the pre-migration stage: Providing tools for promoting integration and adaptation) research project and the fourth survey was conducted as part of the LADA (The Long-Term Adaptation of Diaspora Migrants) research project. The aim of the projects was to study pre- and post-migration factors involved in the long-term adaptation of ethnic re-migrants from Russia to Finland. Both research projects were funded by the Academy of Finland. In the first survey, which was the most extensive out of the four surveys, the motives for the respondents' prospective move to Finland (e.g. aspiration to secure children's future, will to live in the country of their ancestors, concerns regarding financial circumstances, will to live with relatives residing in Finland) as well as with whom they were planning to move were charted. The respondents' sources of information regarding Finland and Finnish society, for example, relatives/friends, Finnish language teachers, authorities or the media, as well as whether they had received support from the same sources were surveyed. Finally, the first survey charted whether...

Social sciencesMinoritiesMigrationCultural and national identity

Cultural identityDiscriminationEmploymentImmigrationMinority groupsParticipationSecond languagesSocial adjustment

Data collection period

2008

Country

Finland, Russia

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Cohort/Event-based

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Ingrian-Finnish persons planning to move from Russia to Finland

Sampling procedure

Non-probability: Availability

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2020

Terms of data access

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

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