Sikhs of Finland with Dr Laura Hirvi

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English - December 29, 2020 01:34 - 37 minutes - 85.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
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Hi, I’m Sukhraj Singh from Sikh Archive and welcome to the 11th episode in our Podcast series of conversations with historians, authors, academics, journalists and activists on topics related to their areas of expertise on Sikh or Panjabi history.

In this episode we are joined by Dr Laura Hirvi who is from Finland and Germany and is currently the director of the Finland Institute of culture, science and business in German speaking Europe.

In her post graduate studies, she completed a PhD about the Sikhs in Finland. She was also part of the “Sikhs of Europe” project which is dedicated to understanding and documenting Sikh migrants in this part of the world and understanding their religious expression in Europe.

We discuss today how and why the Sikhs migrated to Finland and how they settled and established the community in Helsinki. We also take a closer look at the work and research conducted by Laura Hirvi with regards to the cultural and religious expression of the Sikhs in Finland.

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