摘要：This article will provide a preliminary overview of Finnish migration to Sugar Island, Michigan, which occurred primarily between 1915 and 1940, based on narrative sources and census documents. It will introduce and apply social network analysis (SNA) methods and network visualizations to this community and sets the stage for a future, in-depth study of the Finns of Sugar Island. This article is part of a larger project HUMANA-Human Migration and Network Analysis: Developing New Research Methods for the Study of Human Migration and Social Change (https:// blogs.helsinki.fi/humananetworks/), funded by the Finnish Kone Foundation. This project will develop new methodologies for studying the human past by using network analysis to better understand social, political, administrative, economic, and geospatial networks. For the purposes of this article, our main sources are the US Census returns from 1920 to 1940, and they will be supported by other archival and secondary sources. The scope of analysis will focus primarily on a few prominent individuals but will also provide information on the social structures of the Finnish community. Ultimately, this case study develops an experimental computer model of the Sugar Island Finnish community and will provide a glimpse into the authors’ forthcoming project that aims at building a robust dynamic model of the entire Sugar Island community over the period of 1850-1940.
