Immigration to Finland

Number of Allophones, i.e. residents with another native language than Finnish, Swedish or Sami, in Finland, 1980-2011, according to Statistics Finland.[1]

Immigration to Finland is the process by which people migrate to Finland to reside in the country. Some, but not all, become Finnish citizens.

Immigration has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the history of Finland. The economic, social, and political aspects of immigration have caused controversy regarding ethnicity, economic benefits, jobs for non-immigrants, settlement patterns, impact on upward social mobility, crime, and voting behavior.

As of 2011, there are 140,000 foreign born people residing in Finland, which corresponds to 2.7% of the population. According to Wikipedia's Finland demographics page this number is very much out of date. As of 2017, there are 373,325 foreign people residing in Finland, which corresponds to 6.8% of the population. Numerous polls in 2010 indicated that the majority of the Finnish people want to limit immigration to the country in order to preserve regional cultural diversity.[2]

Immigrants from specific countries are divided into several ethnic groups. For example, there are both Russians and Chechenians from Russia, Turks and Kurds from Turkey, Serbs and Albanians from Serbia and immigrants from Iran are divided into Persians, Azeris and Kurds.[3]

History

Immigration has been a major factor of population growth and cultural change throughout Finland. Today, there are 140,000 foreign born people residing in Finland. Foreign born individuals correspond to 2.7% of the population of Finland. However, as of 2011 there are 244,827 persons with a foreign first language (other than Finnish, Swedish or Sami), who account for 4.5% of the population.[4] The largest groups appear to be Russians, Estonians, and Somalis. Meanwhile, immigration from Sweden has halted the decrease in the Swedish-speaking population.

In 2017, hundreds of Muslim asylum seekers from Iraq and Afghanistan converted to Christianity after having had their first asylum application rejected by the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri), in order to re-apply for asylum on the grounds of religious persecution.[5]

Demographics

Between 1987 and 2016, a total of 5,264 people were adopted who were born in another country.

Adoptions by Country of Birth 1987-2016[6]

  1. China China (1,003)
  2. Russia Russia (829)
  3. Thailand Thailand (693)
  4. Colombia Colombia (559)
  5. South Africa South Africa (449)
Immigrant populations by country of origin in 2017[7]
Country199020162017
Soviet Union former Soviet Union9,89174,72175,801
Estonia Estonia34148,61149,424
Iraq Iraq20317,39720,232
Somalia Somalia4918,87819,807
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia former Yugoslavia12811,78212,229
China China44110,80111,303
Vietnam Vietnam1,84110,19410,817
Thailand Thailand2388,7049,051
Afghanistan Afghanistan57,9768,930
Turkey Turkey4128,5288,918
Iran Iran (including Kurdistan province)5167,6988,114
Russia Russia967,3957,874
India India4346,5957,010
Sweden Sweden3,0016,4076,610
Syria Syria384,0576,232
Poland Poland9655,0025,180
Germany Germany1,6494,7314,673
Philippines Philippines2483,9414,346
United Kingdom United Kingdom1,1814,1954,270
Romania Romania1533,6694,015
Nepal Nepal63,2843,632
United States United States2,0173,3943,526
Pakistan Pakistan1303,2053,511
Nigeria Nigeria893,2283,480
Bangladesh Bangladesh953,0103,358
Morocco Morocco3953,1243,286
Democratic Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo63,0203,118
Bulgaria Bulgaria2482,4102,565
Hungary Hungary5402,4952,499
EthiopiaEthiopia1082,2702,463
Spain Spain2992,3432,379
Italy Italy3702,2972,371
Latvia Latvia92,0952,310
Ukraine Ukraine41,9582,221
Ghana Ghana672,0212,135
France France3812,0852,112
Myanmar Myanmar71,9482,020
Sudan Sudan111,8371,859
Kenya Kenya711,5461,616
Brazil Brazil891,4281,566
Egypt Egypt1951,2811,370
Lithuania Lithuania141,2681,364
Cameroon Cameroon41,2271,339
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka1071,2501,306
Greece Greece2381,1371,298
Japan Japan2851,2231,277
Netherlands Netherlands3071,2061,233
Algeria Algeria2101,1671,230
Serbia and Montenegro former Serbia and Montenegro01,1391,161
Tunisia Tunisia145916
Canada Canada494898
The Gambia The Gambia23897
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina0808
Mexico Mexico33807
Lebanon Lebanon109682
Norway Norway568674
Angola Angola3661
Czechoslovakia former Czechoslovakia245660
South Korea South Korea45648
Israel Israel214644
Australia Australia107629
Tanzania Tanzania56586
Albania Albania0585
Colombia Colombia32573
Switzerland Switzerland224550
Denmark Denmark357549
Indonesia Indonesia27539
Cuba Cuba17537
Peru Peru66534
Portugal Portugal73514
Republic of Ireland Ireland72488
Austria Austria164481
Chile Chile183469
Eritrea Eritrea1422
Argentina Argentina82409
Belgium Belgium68407
Malaysia Malaysia96396
Belarus Belarus0385
Cambodia Cambodia78360
Jordan Jordan51349
South Africa South Africa54345
Kazakhstan Kazakhstan0306
Slovakia Slovakia0283
Libya Libya19280
Czech Republic Czech Republic0264
Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia6264
Croatia Croatia1261
Uganda Uganda7261
Total immigrant population37,618364,787384,123

Religion

Politics

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rapo, Markus. "Statistikcentralen -". Stat.fi. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ https://www.stat.fi/til/index_en.html
  4. ↑ Rapo, Markus. "Tilastokeskus -". Stat.fi. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "Stort finländskt fenomen - hundratals muslimer blir kristna". 4 October 2017. Archived from the original on 21 April 2018.
  6. ↑ http://pxnet2.stat.fi/PXWeb/pxweb/fi/StatFin/StatFin__vrm__adopt/statfin_adopt_pxt_001.px/table/tableViewLayout2/?rxid=726cd24d-d0f1-416a-8eec-7ce9b82fd5a4
  7. ↑ http://pxnet2.stat.fi/PXWeb/pxweb/fi/StatFin/StatFin__vrm__vaerak/statfin_vaerak_pxt_032.px/?rxid=726cd24d-d0f1-416a-8eec-7ce9b82fd5a4
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