American Finns as Language Learners

The Age Issue

Abstrakti

When a Finnish emigrant left for America during the great migration years round the turn of the century, he was typically a young man, in his early 20's, single - or at least travelling alone - uneducated, and in most cases originated in the rural areas of the province of Oulu or Vaasa. He was driven away from his home country by economic necessity, by a lack of work and food.