The Future of the Arctic Human Population

Nafisa Yeasmin did her PhD research on Arctic Immigration at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, Finland. Satu Uusiautti is a vice-rector and a professor of education in the Department of Education, University of Lapland, Finland. Timo Koivurova is a research professor of the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, Finland. Timothy Heleniak is a senior research fellow at Nordregio, the Nordic Centre for Spatial Development in Stockholm, Sweden.

Part I: Introduction. 1. Introduction: challenges and opportunities regarding migration in the North. Part II: Immigration and Labour Market. 2. Is language the key to work? Integration of immigrants and dynamics of the labour markets in Turku, Southwest Finland. 3. Towards a sustainable economic integration: policy and practice. Part III: Gender and Migration in the Arctic. 4. Equality for all? Migration and gender equality in Iceland. 5. The pre-determinants of establishing immigrant women entrepreneurship in Lapland: theory and practice. 6. Saami women’s migration in and from the Arctic. Part IV: Local Languages, Education: Integration of Adult and Youth. 7. Adjusting parenting and perceptions of well-being in the host country: a comparative analysis of immigrant parents in the Finnish Arctic and Singapore. 8. International higher education students’ resilience and willingness to immigrate in the Lapland Region. 9. Immigrant youth vulnerabilities in the COVID-19 era. Part V: Outward Migration from the Arctic. 10. “I have already imagined my life elsewhere”: a bottom-up perspective on youth outmigration. 11. Conformal migration: the integrative way to a new society of Finland and Russia. 12. Employment and migration in the Arctic Region: a case study of Spitzbergen/Svalbard Archipelago.