Joranger, Terje Mikael Hasle (ed.): NAHA 2017Freedom and Migration in a Norwegian American Context The idea of personal progress and freedom in the United States continued to have a strong impact on Norwegians for the remainder of the nineteenth century. Knowledge about these freedoms was spread through America letters, handbooks, and returned migrants, and this knowledge often was a decisive factor behind the decision to emigrate. Dimensions of freedom are interconnected in this fifteenth