Overview
- Examines the critical dynamics of immigration and emerging challenges facing the Arctic region.
- Offers a penetrating analysis of human migration to the Arctic and its impact on global issues.
- Provides comprehensive governance strategies for accelerating the social-economic, cultural, and political integration of immigrants.
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This book discusses the past, present, and future of migration in the Arctic. It addresses many of the critical dynamics of immigration and migration, and emerging challenges that now confront the region. What can be learned from the past? What are the challenges and solutions of tomorrow?
Migration in the Arctic is a fascinating and topical - but less studied - phenomenon that influences various societal levels, such as education. The book introduces research on economic, social, and educational perspectives of migration in the region. It provides analysis of minorities immigrating to the North without neglecting the viewpoint of indigenous people of the Arctic.
Contributors comprise researchers from various Arctic countries. Multidisciplinary research provides a unique viewpoint to the theme. The book is suitable for researchers and teachers of higher education as well as anyone interested in Arctic studies and (im)migration.
Migration in the Arctic is a fascinating and topical - but less studied - phenomenon that influences various societal levels, such as education. The book introduces research on economic, social, and educational perspectives of migration in the region. It provides analysis of minorities immigrating to the North without neglecting the viewpoint of indigenous people of the Arctic.
Contributors comprise researchers from various Arctic countries. Multidisciplinary research provides a unique viewpoint to the theme. The book is suitable for researchers and teachers of higher education as well as anyone interested in Arctic studies and (im)migration.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Historical Approaches to (Im)Migration in the Arctic
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Front Matter
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Present Dialogue and Discourses
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Satu Uusiautti, PhD, is Professor of Education at the University of Lapland, Finland. Her research interests include positive psychology and development, flourishing and the phenomenon of success in various contexts, and education and positive educational psychology in the Arctic.
Nafisa Yeasmin, PhD, is a researcher of International Relations at the University of Lapland, Finland. Her research focuses mainly on immigration to the North and Socio-economic adaptation of immigrants in the region. She is leading the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Migration.
Nafisa Yeasmin, PhD, is a researcher of International Relations at the University of Lapland, Finland. Her research focuses mainly on immigration to the North and Socio-economic adaptation of immigrants in the region. She is leading the UArctic Thematic Network on Arctic Migration.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Migration in the Arctic
Book Subtitle: The Past, Present, and Future
Editors: Satu Uusiautti, Nafisa Yeasmin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6561-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6560-7Published: 18 March 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6563-8Published: 02 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-6561-4Published: 06 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 261
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Migration