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Globalisation and increased mobility of people have led political representation in need of to confront new demands. Political terrain has become less confined within state territoriality, and political community has extended beyond state territories. Emigrant representation has become increasingly important and visible, albeit difficult topic, and re-evaluation of the means of emigrant political representation is necessary. Based on a literary review of political representation, the aim of this article is to find out 1) Should Finnish emigrants have their own overseas constituency, and 2) How the representation of emigrants could be organised in homeland politics. Statistical analyses are based on a data collected from 1,067 Finnish emigrants in 2014. This paper demonstrates through logistic regression that overseas constituency has strongest support among emigrants who have lived longer time abroad as well as among emigrants who visit homeland less frequently. However, parliamentary representation is not the only way to organise emigrant representation in homeland politics. Possible inequality in parliamentary representation could be unravelled by three different means: by quotas and reserved seats; by surrogate representatives, or; by increasing the authority of NGOs, interest groups and lobbyist organisations. This study contributes to the fields of political and migrations studies, and the findings of this paper can be used to develop targeted interventions aimed at advancing emigrant representation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As globalisation, European integration and an increase of migration have made life more mobile, a growing number of countries have enfranchised their emigrant citizens. As previous research (e.g. Braun & Gratschew 2007) has suggested, while the constitutions of many countries guarantee the right to vote for all citizens, in reality external voters are often disenfranchised because of a lack of procedures enabling them to exercise the right. Adoption of convenience voting techniques such as postal voting and overseas constituencies have had a noteworthy impact on higher turnout in Sweden and Italy. The main question asked in this article is: Does the low level of turnout among Finnish emigrants result from lack of motivation or the lack of possibility? The data used in this article was collected in 2014 among Finnish emigrants residing in Sweden, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Canada and USA (n=1067). The key findings of this article suggest that high costs of voting and the inconvenience of voting method is the overriding reason for the low level of turnout among Finnish emigrants. Adoption of internet voting or other convenience voting technique could therefore be expected to increase overseas turnout in Finnish elections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Death from infections among previously healthy infants is rare in our country. Occasionally, warning of a severe disease may in the initial phase of the disease become manifest only from the parents' description of the condition of their child. We describe two infants under the age of 3 months with paroxysmal cough, whose whooping cough progressed to require intensive care. A suspicion of whooping cough was not roused neither among those making the emergency care assessment nor by the attending physicians before the patients had to be placed on a ventilator as the illness progressed. One of our patients succumbed to the illness despite of intensive care. Whooping cough should be suspected in all unimmunized infants having paroxysmal cough.