TY - JOUR AU - Ståhlberg, Sabira AU - Cwiklinksi, Sebastian PY - 2020/05/13 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Foreword: Tatars in Finland in the Transnational Context of the Baltic Sea Region JF - Studia Orientalia Electronica JA - StOrE VL - 8 IS - 2 SE - DO - 10.23993/store.83952 UR - https://journal.fi/store/article/view/83952 SP - 1-7 AB - <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="justify"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Tatar diaspora in Finland has attracted researchers for over a century, but studies traditionally&nbsp;focus on topics such as origins and general Tatar history, religion, identity or language. One of the&nbsp;most important aspects of research on Tatars both historically and today, however, is the transnational&nbsp;context. Migrating from villages in Nizhny Novgorod province, often via the Russian capital<br>Saint Petersburg at the end of the nineteenth century, the forming Tatar diaspora communities in&nbsp;the Baltic Sea region maintained, developed and extended their previous networks and also created&nbsp;new connections over national borders despite periods of political difficulties. New research about&nbsp;Tatars in the Baltic Sea region – with the focal point of the Tatars in Finland and their connections<br>chiefly in Estonia, Russia and Sweden – was presented during a seminar called Tatars in Finland in&nbsp;the Transnational Context of the Baltic Sea Region at the University of Helsinki in October 2018.&nbsp;Scholars from Finland, Sweden, Russia, Estonia and Hungary spoke about the past and present of&nbsp;the diaspora. A result of the seminar, this special issue of Studia Orientalia Electronica is dedicated&nbsp;to new research on Tatars in a transnational context.</span></span></span></p> ER -