Immigration in the circumpolar north : integration and resilience / edited by Nafisa Yeasmin, Waliul Hasanat, Jan Brzozowski and Stefan Kirchner.

Introduction : migration and ethnic challenges for the circumpolar north / Nafisa Yeasmin, Waliul Hasanat, Jan Brzozowski andStefan Kirchner -- The impact of superdiversity on the educational system : a mirror image of utopia or dystopia? / Nafisa Yeasmin andSatu Uusiautti -- Syrian students at the Arctic Circle in Iceland / Kheirie El Hariri, Hermína Gunnþórsdóttir, Markus Meckl -- Immigrant youth perspectives : understanding challenges and opportunities in Finnish Lapland / Ria -Maria Adams -- Migrant integration in Finland : learning-processes of immigrant women / Nafisa Yeasmin and Stefan Kirchner -- An integral assessment of relevant perspectives of legal pluralism and the family laws of immigrants / Waliul Hasanat, Nafisa Yeasmin and Timo Koivurova -- Living in nowhere / Juha Suoranta and Robert FitzSimmons -- Embodying transience : indigenous former youth in care and residential instability in Yukon, Canada / Amelia Merhar -- Cold temperature health risks and human rights / Stefan Kirchner and Susanna Pääkkölä -- Mixed embeddedness of immigrant entrepreneurs and community resilience : lessons to the Arctic / Jan Brzozowski -- Migration and sustainable development in the European Arctic / Stefan Kirchner.

"Immigration in the Circumpolar North: Integration and Resilience explores interconnected issues of integration and resilience among both immigrants and host communities in the Arctic region. It examines the factors that inhibit or enable the success of immigrants to the Arctic and the role of territoriality in the process of integration This book showcases a variety of perspectives on circumpolar immigration, and includes insights from eight Arctic countries as well as thirteen 'observer countries' such as China, India, Singapore, Poland, Germany, France, Japan. It considers the solidarities and engagements of indigenous and other local peoples with the new coming immigrants and refugees, and the impact of immigration on the economic and societal life in the Circumpolar Arctic. The book will be of interest to researchers, teachers, and professors, and policymakers and others interested in migration issues, Arctic issues, international relations, law, and economic integration"-- Provided by publisher.

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