Imagining Finland: negotiating the sense of self through return imaginaries

When embarking on a migration journey, migrants cultivate personal ideas of themselves ‘here’ and ‘there’. This includes one’s reflections about possible return – the imaginaries. They emerge from time-, place- person-specific ideas, attitudes, feelings possibilities before, after, relocation. Through digital ethnographic study, this paper seeks to expand research done how so-called ‘middling’ negotiate sense self through I discuss one such group, Finns, in UK ask ‘what is role imaginaries negotiating Finns’ translocal place-making UK?’. The results show that function as framework for positioning reaffirming relation Finland during trajectory. In their idea return, Finns questions ‘who am I?’ do want be?’. reflecting everydayness Finland, visits, produce ‘translocal self’.