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- A short trip across the Baltic Sea
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- Low-skilled workers emigrated from Finland for large periods of time after independence in 1918.
- The USA used to be the top destination, but since WWII, half a million Finns have moved to Sweden.
- Most of today’s emigrants have higher education, many have Swedish as their mother tongue and integrate easily in Sweden.
- Some 20,000 Swedish-speaking Finns have moved to Sweden in the past 20 years. Only a small minority return.
- The Finland House at Snickarbacken in Stockholm has been a culture house, language school and meeting place for migrants and Swedes since 1970.
- Tur-retur aims to stop the brain drain and turn the tide of Finns moving to Sweden, by informing Swedes about the opportunities for, among other things, studying and working in Swedish in Finland.
- Finnish migrants have established a large number of associations in Sweden, covering culture, sports and social activities. The associations were particularly important for Finnish-speaking immigrants who never learned Swedish. In the past, they also used to send aid packages to Finland.
- Finnish has been a national minority language in Sweden since 2000. People have a right to Finnish language preschool and elderly care.
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