Fuengirola, on Spain’s Costa del Sol, is home to a community of around 30,000 Finns, whose members do not bother to learn the local language or customs. They live their own semi-isolated lives, spending their time in Finnish bars and relying on their own Finnish shops, services and institutions. Certain supporters of extreme right have called for a solution to the Finnish problem.

This project explores the substance of Finnishness and issues related to immigration through the people of “Fuge”