Migrating back to history? The settlement structure and migration in Finland, a 400 years’ perspective

Economic historians have shown maps from early history describing settlement structures and boundaries of permanent settlement of Finland. Population has moved towards the north and east and settled the whole country in the long time period up to the early 20th century. Since the Second World War,...

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Main Authors:	Elli Heikkilä, Taru Järvinen, Heikki Jussila
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	The Geographical Society of Northern Finland 2002-01-01
Series:	Nordia Geographical Publications
Online Access:	https://nordia.journal.fi/article/view/76242

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spelling	doaj-3626d2cc9f0147a097b15c648d6e84652021-03-29T13:13:08ZengThe Geographical Society of Northern FinlandNordia Geographical Publications1238-20862736-97222002-01-01311Migrating back to history? The settlement structure and migration in Finland, a 400 years’ perspectiveElli Heikkilä0Taru Järvinen1Heikki Jussila2Institute of MigrationInstitute of MigrationDepartment of Geography, University of Oulu Economic historians have shown maps from early history describing settlement structures and boundaries of permanent settlement of Finland. Population has moved towards the north and east and settled the whole country in the long time period up to the early 20th century. Since the Second World War, the Finnish society has undergone vast structural changes and the role of migration has occupied an important position in shaping the regional settlement structure. Nowadays the population settlement concentrates to the coast, river valleys and the nodal centres of foreign trade. These areas are the same as in the early settlement phase. https://nordia.journal.fi/article/view/76242
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title	Migrating back to history? The settlement structure and migration in Finland, a 400 years’ perspective
title_short	Migrating back to history? The settlement structure and migration in Finland, a 400 years’ perspective
title_full	Migrating back to history? The settlement structure and migration in Finland, a 400 years’ perspective
title_fullStr	Migrating back to history? The settlement structure and migration in Finland, a 400 years’ perspective
title_full_unstemmed	Migrating back to history? The settlement structure and migration in Finland, a 400 years’ perspective
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publisher	The Geographical Society of Northern Finland
series	Nordia Geographical Publications
issn	1238-2086 2736-9722
publishDate	2002-01-01
description	Economic historians have shown maps from early history describing settlement structures and boundaries of permanent settlement of Finland. Population has moved towards the north and east and settled the whole country in the long time period up to the early 20th century. Since the Second World War, the Finnish society has undergone vast structural changes and the role of migration has occupied an important position in shaping the regional settlement structure. Nowadays the population settlement concentrates to the coast, river valleys and the nodal centres of foreign trade. These areas are the same as in the early settlement phase.
url	https://nordia.journal.fi/article/view/76242
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Migrating back to history? The settlement structure and migration in Finland, a 400 years’ perspective

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