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Kathy Weidenfeller leading a music rehearsal in Helsinki, Finland. Photograph for Finland My Home project.
April 14, 2019April 14, 2019

I still struggle between frustration with Finland and knowing there are so many good things

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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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Peter Thompson from England, photograph by Finland My Home outside the Accenture office in Ruoholahti, Helsinki in 2017.
February 12, 2019February 12, 2019

“I felt guilty that I had let so much of my Englishness slip”

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Emma Nkonoki in Espoo, Finland in 2018
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“I’ve learned that getting where you want to be is a life-long struggle”

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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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Yury in Joensuu, Finland
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“The first person I came out to was the director of my dance college in Finland”

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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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Leon Onderwater in Helsinki, Finland My Home
September 30, 2018September 30, 2018

“I talk with the customers in Finnish, but once they hear I’m not Finnish they switch to English”

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Barry Reddin of Ireland in Joensuu, Finland, 2017
July 3, 2018July 3, 2018

“We said, screw it, let’s just go to Finland and see where we get from there”

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