Authors

• Finnish Literature Society. Archive
• Salmi-Niklander, Kirsti (University of Helsinki)
• Pantti, Mervi (University of Helsinki)
• Laine, Sofia (Finnish Youth Research Society. Finnish Youth Research Network)

Keywords

foreigners, immigrants, immigration, refugees, social economy, voluntary work

Abstract

The dataset consists of 32 texts on Finnish experiences of voluntary work with asylum seekers. Data collection was organised by the Finnish Literature Society.

In the writing guidelines, the participants were asked to write about their reasons for doing voluntary work with asylum seekers, their experiences regarding the work, and the relationship they had with the asylum seekers. The respondents were asked to describe their experiences of both short-term and long-term voluntary work. The respondents discussed voluntary work in reception centres, social media use in their work, and different personal encounters with the asylum seekers.

Background information included the participant's name or pseudonym, occupation, year of birth, area of residence and gender. The data were organised into an easy to use HTML version at FSD.

The dataset is only available in Finnish.