Browsing by Subject "immigrant integration"

Helsinki’s residential social mix has undoubtedly altered how socio-economic classes, and, more recently, how ethnic groups situate throughout the city. Analyzing the residential patterns of Vietnamese speakers within the Helsinki Metropolitan Region, the study asks how the Finnish Vietnamese have managed to preserve their heritage culture and language as a result. The results find minimal clustering and relatively high levels of spatial assimilation amongst the city’s Vietnamese speakers. These findings bring attention to the Vietnamese’s comparatively high labor market participation during the core years of integration to Finland, which likely prompted the group’s proportional upward spatial mobility within the Helsinki Metropolitan Region. This, however, does not account for the disproportionate, yet, marginal population growth taking place in certain residential areas since 2000. Considering how the city’s social mixing policies and goals shape the experiences of migrants, the research further analyzes how these mechanisms may be affecting processes of heritage culture and language preservation for migrant communities.