Number of immigrant organisations run into the hundreds
Abdirashid Awad Dirie’s Somali League speaks for Somalis, while Ludmila Hutiniemi’s association cherishes the memory of Tsarist Russian saints
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Miikka Pyykkönen, who has been studying immigrant associations at the University of Jyväskylä, says that the current number of such organisations is about 750, which is 100 more than five years ago.
However, some of the associations exist only on paper.
It is impossible to calcuateount the precise number of such organisations. In the past two months alone, at least 14 new immigrant associations have been registered.
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