Full Description
The Future of the Arctic Human Population seeks to explore the challenges of Arctic migration, immigrants, and refugees and how integrated societies can be developed. Moreover, it discusses disparities between regions on policies and their implementation.
This book explores how cross-border cooperation is needed to provide innovative solutions to migration challenges such as cultural differences, acceptance, and integration into local communities, and joining the labour market. It examines whether there are regional differences in well-being among immigrants in Arctic countries. The book considers how we can build and model integrated societies, and what tools and measure can be used to assess inclusive and resilient societies.
Contents
Part I: Introduction. 1. Introduction: challenges and opportunities regarding migration in the North. Part II: Immigration and Labour Market. 2. Is language the key to work? Integration of immigrants and dynamics of the labour markets in Turku, Southwest Finland. 3. Towards a sustainable economic integration: policy and practice. Part III: Gender and Migration in the Arctic. 4. Equality for all? Migration and gender equality in Iceland. 5. The pre-determinants of establishing immigrant women entrepreneurship in Lapland: theory and practice. 6. Saami women's migration in and from the Arctic. Part IV: Local Languages, Education: Integration of Adult and Youth. 7. Adjusting parenting and perceptions of well-being in the host country: a comparative analysis of immigrant parents in the Finnish Arctic and Singapore. 8. International higher education students' resilience and willingness to immigrate in the Lapland Region. 9. Immigrant youth vulnerabilities in the COVID-19 era. Part V: Outward Migration from the Arctic. 10. "I have already imagined my life elsewhere": a bottom-up perspective on youth outmigration. 11. Conformal migration: the integrative way to a new society of Finland and Russia. 12. Employment and migration in the Arctic Region: a case study of Spitzbergen/Svalbard Archipelago.
