Toinen tärkeä mutta huolestuttava kirjoitus Adam Al-Sawadista. “Lyhyesti sanottuna arkielämästäni on tullut sellaista, että minusta tuntuu että yhteiskunta työntää minua koko ajan poispäin. Että en kuulu tänne, että yhteiskunta hylkii minua, että minulta yritetään viedä kotimaani ja turvani,” hän kirjoittaa Facebook seinälle. Lukekaa.
Month: December 2015
Twitter: White Finnish rapist or arsonist = lone wolf, drunk
In Finland, we have had a number of arson attacks against asylum reception centers. We even have one substitute MP of the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* who said that “god had answered his prayers” when a building, which was supposed to house asylum seekers, was razed to the ground earlier this month.
Writer Nura Farah is one of the bright hopes of multicultural Finland
Nura Farah is Finland’s first published writer with Somali roots. She moved to Finland as a refugee in the early 1990s when she was 13 years after her country became tangled in a costly and painful civil war that continues to date.
Kati van der Hoeven-Lepistö: Peace and harmony
“Isn’t this world magnificent and so incredibly beautiful?” What a wonderful and perfectly balanced planet that can maintain an unimaginable variety of all kinds and sorts of lives. Just think about this, all this has been made with no human intelligence. In fact, the planet gives life a chance to exist.
Ruskeat Tytöt: Minä olen unelma
Kirjoitan tätä suoraan blogipostauskenttään, sydän murskana ja silmien takana itku, joka ei enää edes tule ulos.
Is Finland swapping Nordic values like social equality for social inequality?
Social Democratic Party (SDP) MEP Liisa Jaakonsaari gives a good interview to Helsingin Sanomat about the government’s 80-point plan to tighten immigration policy that not only targets asylum seekers but impacts negatively the whole migrant and minority community of Finland.
Migrants’ Rights Network: 2015 – The year when immigration became an indissolubly European issue
Halfway through December seems like a good time to sketch out some ideas on what 2015 might come to mean in a history of immigration which has yet to be written.
Migrant Tales’ 2015 Hall of Spot-On Journalism
Migrant Tales’ 2015 Hall of Poor and Sloppy Journalism has been updated throughout the year. Too many stories that appear in the Finnish media exemplify poor and sloppy journalism, especially when they cover racism and our ever-growing culturally diverse society. The editorial published below by Lahti-based Etelä-Suomen Sanomat is a rare example of spot-on journalism in…
The “Denmarkization” of Finnish immigration policy
The Perussuomalaiset (PS) are eager to pass legislation that will not only hurt asylum seekers but all migrants and minorities that live in Finland. After breaking almost all of their campaign promises and after their poll rating have plummeted to single-digit percentages, the PS only have one trump card left in their political bag of tricks: anti-immigration rhetoric and policy.
PS MP comes to Huhtasaari’s rescue but doesn’t have a faint idea about human rights
Perussuomalaiset (PS)* MP Leena Meri came to the rescue of MP Laura Huuhtasaari, who claimed that human rights don’t apply to everyone. What Meri argues about the UN Declaration of Human Rights is equally worrying considering that she was a policewoman. Both Meri and Huhtasaari are in the same league when it comes to Islamophobia….