We studied how individuals’ ethnolinguistic affiliation relates to the ethnolinguistic structure of kinship in contemporary Finland, a society in which Finnish-speaking and Swedish-speaking ethnolinguistic groups have coexisted for centuries and mixed marital unions are common. Using multigenerational data from the population register, we determine...
Using Finnish register data, this study assesses the role of cultural proximity in international migration. Finland has an ethnic minority of Swedish speakers, allowing us to proxy for different strengths of attachment to Finland across the population. We exploit information on individual and parental ethno-linguistic affiliation to identify Swedis...
We study how ethnolinguistic identity relates to ethnolinguistic background in contemporary Finland. This is a society in which two ethnolinguistic groups have coexisted for centuries and mixed unions are increasingly common. Using multigenerational data from the population register, we determine the ethnolinguistic affiliation of children born in ...
The Uighurs are linguistically and culturally distinct from the Han Chinese majority, and they have a strong sense of identity, often associated with a violent resistance against China’s central government and with conflictual relationships with the Han living in Xinjiang. Despite Xinjiang’s development over the past decades, especially after the i...
This article examines how the people and initiatives of countries of emigration are supporting (or failing to support) the maintenance of the native languages of migrants in Europe. To that end, existing links need to be identified between European languages and languages of origin. Firstly, not all languages are equal, and a social hierarchy exist...
