Deep Mapping the ‘Uncharted Territories’ of Finnish Immigrant History
Kone Foundation, 2020-2025
Project Director: Samira Saramo
Project Objectives:
The objective of this project is to create an openly accessible multilayered and multisensory digital “map” that offers new ways of engaging with Finnish migrant history in Ontario. This map will allow cartography, narratives, photographs, soundscapes, demographic statistics, ecological description, and archival documents to be brought together with the hope of offering new ways of seeing complicated and overlapping claims on place, belonging, and history. Through this approach and tool, Finnish migrant histories will not only be situated in the community’s own significant sociocultural and everyday places, but also spanning over time in the changing contexts of the physical environment, Indigenous presence, state-imposed settler colonial frameworks, and overviews of historical population and economic data. The project contributes to bridging migration history and Canadian settler colonialism studies.
Project website: www.samirasaramo.com/aboutproject
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