The Apple Never Falls Far from the Tree—Or does It? Finnish Female Migrant Transnational Generations on the Swedish Labor Market

Hanna Snellman is Professor of European Ethnology and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki. Her prior appointments include, for instance, Finnish Chair at Lakehead University, Canada (2007). Her research since the 1990s has focused on the ethnography of mobility, especially Finnish lumberjacks and Finnish immigrants to Sweden and North-America, and history of European Ethnology. In addition to several articles (e.g., “Everyday Language Policies: Embodiment of Language-Related Experiences of Finnish Women in Sweden” in Multilingual Matters 157, 2015, and “Performing Ethnography and Ethnicity: An Early Documentation of Finnish Immigrants in Nordiska museet” in Ethnologia Europaea 40 [2], 2010), she has published four monographs, including Khants' Time (2000) and The Road Taken (2005), and co-edited nine books or special issues of journals. Currently she is working on Finnish-American cookbooks and transnational death.

Lotta Weckström, PhD, is a university lecturer in Finnish Studies in the Department of Scandinavian at University of California, Berkeley. She received her PhD from Jyväskylä University's Center of Applied Language Studies in 2008, and for her doctorate she did extensive fieldwork in central Sweden with immigrant Finns' transnational generations. Her research is ethnographic with a sociolinguistic touch, and she has published two books, Finns in Sweden: Representations of Finnishness in Sweden (Finnish Literature Society, 2011) and Suomalaisuus on kuin vahakangas [Finnishness is like an oilcloth] (Siirtolaisuusinstituutti, tutkimuksia A36, 2011). She is currently working on a project collecting oral histories with elderly members of Berkeley Finnish Kaleva Hall.