FACTFILE: The 1980s were the big decade for returnees
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In 2006, 9,394 Finnish citizens moved abroad, and 8,583 Finns returned from abroad. Stays of less than a year in the second country do not show up in the Statistics Finland figures.
Returnee numbers were at a peak during the early 1980s, when a great many Finns who had moved to Sweden in search of work decided to come home.
The number of returnees declined in the recession years of the early 1990s, and have been growing again since the end of the last century.
Approximately 600,000 first- and second-generation Finns currently live abroad.
Suomi-Seura (The Finland Society, an interest group providing expertise and service to Finns living or moving abroad or returning to Finland), provides counselling and advice on the return home, and arranges information briefings for returnees.
Organisations offering peer-group help include: Suomen Paluumuutajat, Xpat-klubi, Finnwid, and Suomi-Seura.
A number of companies and agencies offer training for firms and their employees. Among them are: Return Ticket, International Skills, Deloitte, Fintra, and KPMG.
Helsingin Sanomat / First published in print 7.4.2008
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 Many (not so) happy returns
MAKING THINGS EASIER: Prepare well in advance
A year in Paraguay and the changes it brought
"Fortunately we have a home country to come back to"
Helsingin Sanomat
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