2. Finnish-Hungarian-Estonian Ethnological Symposium. "Departure and Arrival: Migratory Processes and Local Responses from Ethnographic and Anthropological Perspective"

At the moment, the immigrants are marginal target groups for the museums and other memory organizations in Finland. However, in the future these groups will be bigger and even more heterogeneous than today. These increasing immigrant groups are potential and important public and possibly collaborative partners to the traditional heritage institutions in Finland.
In this presentation I will represent three cases of the cultural heritage practices that I have been involved and have been organized with immigrant women and children in Turku, south-western Finland. These cases are from 2011, when Turku was the Cultural Capital of Finland and from 2014, when Louhi association organized two excursions to immigrant families in Turku and Kaarina. One of these excursions was also part of the European Heritage Days.
By this presentation I will share some experiences and practices that were used in these cases. I will also discuss the possibilities of future collaboration of the immigrant groups and cultural heritage organizations in Finland. Especially the pedagogical aspects of the practices are reflected, because there is a current need to build up more systematic and long-range heritage practices concerning assimilating immigrants in Finland