Både finsk och svensk : modernisering, nationalism och språkförändring i Tornedalen 1850-1939

• Main Author: Elenius, Lars
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Historiska studier 2001
• Subjects: Modernisation; nationalism; ethnicity; assimilation policy; national identity; marriage pattern; language shift; Torne Valley; elementary school; History; Historia; Övertorneå; Tornedalen
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-59640

This study deals with the impact by modernisation and nationalism on the ethnicity and national identity among the Finnish speaking minority in the Torne Valley in the north of Sweden. The starting point is 1809 when Sweden lost the Finnish part of the kingdom to Russia. It resulted in the division...