Not wanting to be “Stuck”:Exploring the role of mobility for young people´'s wellbeing in Northern Finland
It is common for rural young people in Finland to leave the town where they were born. Far from being a solely Finnish phenomenon, however, the outmigration of rural youth is a global trend that affects the entire Arctic area. In this chapter, we suggest that it could be fruitful to understand the p...
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ftulaplandcdispu:oai:lacris.ulapland.fi:publications/6df0d75b-5aee-4753-b4d1-b2dfb4b190d1 2023-05-15T14:25:23+02:00 Not wanting to be “Stuck”:Exploring the role of mobility for young people´'s wellbeing in Northern Finland Komu, Teresa Adams, Ria-Maria Stammler, Florian Toivanen, Reetta 2021-09-22 application/pdf https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/6df0d75b-5aee-4753-b4d1-b2dfb4b190d1 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003110019-4 https://lacris.ulapland.fi/ws/files/21854683/10.4324_9781003110019_4_chapterpdf_1.pdf eng eng Routledge info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Komu , T & Adams , R-M 2021 , Not wanting to be “Stuck” : Exploring the role of mobility for young people´'s wellbeing in Northern Finland . in F Stammler & R Toivanen (eds) , Young People, Wellbeing and Placemaking in the Arctic . Routledge , pp. 32-52 . https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003110019-4 /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/5/14/3 Social anthropology bookPart 2021 ftulaplandcdispu https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003110019-4 2022-10-13T05:54:40Z It is common for rural young people in Finland to leave the town where they were born. Far from being a solely Finnish phenomenon, however, the outmigration of rural youth is a global trend that affects the entire Arctic area. In this chapter, we suggest that it could be fruitful to understand the phenomenon of rural youth outmigration in Northern Finland in the context of a prevailing “culture of migration”. We direct our focus onto young people’s understandings of wellbeing and on the role mobility plays in these. Our findings are based on ethnographic fieldwork among young people living in the northern Finnish municipality of Kolari. We argue that mobility is necessary for the wellbeing of young people, whose rural lives are characterized by remoteness. Moreover, outmigration has become a key transitional phase in young rural Finns’ journey towards the good life, as members of a modern, mobile society. Book Part Arctic Arctic Kolari Northern Finland LaCRIS - University of Lapland Current Research System Arctic Kolari ENVELOPE(24.173,24.173,67.292,67.292) 32 52 London |
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It is common for rural young people in Finland to leave the town where they were born. Far from being a solely Finnish phenomenon, however, the outmigration of rural youth is a global trend that affects the entire Arctic area. In this chapter, we suggest that it could be fruitful to understand the phenomenon of rural youth outmigration in Northern Finland in the context of a prevailing “culture of migration”. We direct our focus onto young people’s understandings of wellbeing and on the role mobility plays in these. Our findings are based on ethnographic fieldwork among young people living in the northern Finnish municipality of Kolari. We argue that mobility is necessary for the wellbeing of young people, whose rural lives are characterized by remoteness. Moreover, outmigration has become a key transitional phase in young rural Finns’ journey towards the good life, as members of a modern, mobile society. |
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Not wanting to be “Stuck”:Exploring the role of mobility for young people´'s wellbeing in Northern Finland |
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Not wanting to be “Stuck”:Exploring the role of mobility for young people´'s wellbeing in Northern Finland |
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