Finns in the USA

Patterns of Immigration and Settlement since 1900

Abstrakti

Finnish immigration to and settlement in the US can be divided into three phases: 1) the period of mass immigration since the latter half of the nineteenth century until the US immigrations laws of 1921 and 1924, 2) the period of the 30s, 40s and 50s when the Finnish ethnic froup was shifting from a foreign born ethnic group to that of born and bred in US group, and 3) the period of real barefoot generation with a small minority of people born in Finland