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Kelsi Vaahtojärvi from the United States in Helsinki, Finland. Photograph by Peter Seenan for Finland My Home project.
April 13, 2019July 19, 2020

“Sometimes I default to Swedish when I try to ask for something in a shop”

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Jiří Hofman, an immigrant from Czech Republic, in Tampere, Finland. Finland My Home
April 13, 2019July 11, 2020

“I’ve been here almost 20 years, but no way do I consider myself Finnish”

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Kubilay Kağan Özkan in Helsinki
October 20, 2018April 24, 2020

“I fell in love with Finland because I tried to find the ‘Finnish thing’ – like ice swimming”

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Meg Sakilayan-Latvala in Helsinki, Finland
October 15, 2018February 12, 2019

“As a migrant in Finland you have to be 2-3 times better than your native competitors”

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March 19, 2018July 20, 2020

“Finnish women are very strongly willed, much more so than Finnish men”

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December 10, 2017April 20, 2018

“With my friends we often compare life here to being a baby”

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Andruta Ilie, Tampere. Photo Finland My Home
August 27, 2017December 12, 2018

“I was always looking for this place that I could call home”

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April 1, 2017November 26, 2018

“Home is wherever I feel safe and my family feels safe”

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