Full Description
Immigration in the Circumpolar North: Integration and Resilience explores interconnected issues of integration and resilience among both immigrants and host communities in the Arctic region. It examines the factors that inhibit or enable the success of immigrants to the Arctic and the role of territoriality in the process of integration.
This book showcases a variety of perspectives on circumpolar immigration, and includes insights from eight Arctic countries as well as thirteen 'observer countries' such as China, India, Singapore, Poland, Germany, France and Japan. It considers the solidarities and engagements of indigenous and other local peoples with the new coming immigrants and refugees, and the impact of immigration on the economic and societal life in the Circumpolar Arctic.
The book will be of interest to researchers, teachers, professors, policymakers and others interested in migration issues, Arctic issues, international relations, law, and economic integration.
Contents
List of figures. List of contributors. Part I: Introduction 1 Introduction: migration and ethnic challenges for the Circumpolar North. Part II: Youth perspective in the Arctic 2 The impact of superdiversity on the educational system: a mirror image of utopia or dystopia? 3 Syrian students at the Arctic Circle in Iceland. 4 Immigrant youth perspectives: understanding challenges and opportunities in Finnish Lapland. Part III: Family and diversity challenges 5 Migrant integration in Finland: learning processes of immigrant women. 6 An integral assessment of relevant perspectives of legal pluralism and the family laws of immigrants. 7 Living in nowhere. Part IV: Human rights and indigenous communities in the Arctic 8 Embodying transience: indigenous former youth in care and residential instability in Yukon, Canada. 9 Cold temperature health risks and human rights. Part V: Migration and development issues in the Arctic 10 Mixed embeddedness of immigrant entrepreneurs and community resilience: lessons for the Arctic. 11 Migration and sustainable development in the European Arctic. Index.
