With this volume, we invite you on a trip to the Far North of Europe, to Finland and its neighbouring countries Estonia and Sweden, and across the Arctic circle to the Lapland area which stretches from northernmost Scandinavia in the west to northern Finland and North-Western Russia. This is the area in which the Saami and Finnic peoples have lived for centuries, forming language contacts and discourses that are in constant change. On the pages of this book, consisting of 10 individual chapters and this introduction, we will introduce you to some of the inhabitants in this area and familiarise you with their everyday linguistic practices during the first two decades of the twenty-first century. We cover under-studied topics such as the linguistic situation of indigenous Saami people and language attitudes of twenty-first-century migrants. In the chapters of the book, we will find out how they talk about their linguistic identities and the use of different languages. We will also explore their linguistic attitudes, ideologies, and ways in which their language use and their talk about language reflect their personal social relations and society at large. The studies in this book have been selected in order to show-case the versatility of language contacts in areas that have not yet been addressed in multilingualism studies, but which offer unique insights into and broaden our understanding of the topic. The studies represent indi-viduals with different backgrounds as well as areas with their unique cultural and geographical characteristics, including cities as well as sparsely populated rural areas. The chapters also exhibit a flexibility of method-ological choices in the study of language discourses and contacts. The qualitative studies in this book have been chosen with the aim of showing the depth and richness of language discourses and contacts rather than at providing generalisations.