Immigrants in Finland?

Question

Are there many immigrants in Finland? Specifically in Helsinki? Are there Africans, Asians and Europeans from other countries there? If so, is it more recently that people from other nations have begun to go there, or has there been a sizeable immigrant population there for a while?

Answer 1

No not really, we have pretty strict immigrant policy. Although almost all of the few immigrants we have are located in Helsinki, so it's the most multicultural city here.

Answer 2

Hi,

I found that site,

Foreigners in Finland
Written for Virtual Finland by Olavi Koivukangas, Ph.D.,
Institute of Migration, Turku




Having lost more than a million people as emigrants during the previous hundred years, in the 1990s Finland became a country of net immigration. In the years 1990-2002, net immigration to Finland was around 69,000 persons (including returning Finnish citizens). In 2002 Finland had about 152,000 residents born outside Finland. Of these, nearly 104,000 were citizens of other countries. Approximately 40 percent of Finland's foreign community is from the former Soviet Union. Of this group about 25,000 are Ingrian Finns and 10,000 are Estonian. The next largest group is composed of Swedish citizens, of whom there are around 8,000.


Ref : http://www.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=25787

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