Farrah* is an Iraqi woman who came to Finland in September 2015 with her then one-year-old child. She left Turkey in the hope that she’d get a residence permit and would be able to bring her husband and two children in Turkey, aged 10 and 12.
Month: February 2017
Picture of the week: Standing up for our rights to asylum and hurrah for our side!
We’ve been watching, like all of Finland, the brave asylum seekers who are standing up since the weekend to a government and Finnish Immigration Service that cares little to nothing for their fates. These pictures that they are taking and the stories of defiance they are telling form part of the ever-culturally diverse history of…
(Institute of Race Relations) “No one accepts responsibility:” thirteen refugees dead in Greece
As refugees and migrants die in Greece’s ‘hotspots’, military camps and in transit, the EU, the UNHCR and Greek institutions must be held to account.
Iraqi asylum seeker FS: Deportation countdown begins
The police service in Seinjäjoki, a city located 30km from the Finnish Emigrant Museum of Peräseinäjoki, told a young Iraqi asylum seeker on Monday of his third rejections for asylum by the supreme district court and has two choices: To return “voluntarily” or “by force” to Iraq.
AntroBlogi: Pakolaisia vastassa
Teksti: Tapio Kumpula, VTK. Podcast-lukija: Bruno Gronow Erilaisuus ja muutoksen tila ovat tuttuja ja ”helppoja” keskusteluaiheita antropologeille. AntroBlogiin kysymykset toiseudesta ja diasporista ovat löytyneet vähemmistöjen, muukalaisten ja etenkin turvapakanhakijoiden muodossa. Paljon keskustelua herättäviä turvapaikanhakijoita ja pakolaisia on tarkasteltu monelta näkökannalta, mutta nyt työelämätoimitus haluaa kohdistaa linssinsä aiheen viereen?—?turvapaikanhakijoiden ja pakolaisten kanssa työskenteleviin ihmisiin. TASSÄ ON…
W. Che: Everyone has a home
Eikö Suomessa ole pahaa populismia?
Jyrki Katainen esiintyi eilisen A-studion videohaastattelussa hyvin ja jämäkästi melkein loppuun saakka. Jo matkalla kävi kuitenkin ilmi, että se lopullinen rohkeus puuttuu: pahaa populismia on vain Euroopassa. Kun suomalainen puhuu Euroopasta, se tarkoittaa yhä sitä, että Suomea se ei koske. Puheensa lopuksi Katainen sitten jo tuhrasi kaiken sen ryhdin ja moraalin, jota hän koitti osoittaa….
Migrants’ Rights Network: Walls and borders
Are walls and tighter border controls the answer to the big questions on immigration? Do they achieve what their advocates set out to do? Or should the world aim to return to a time when less xenophobia and more trust in people was the order of the day?
Facebook: “We won’t send you back to a hell called Iraq,” writes Kerstin Ögård
Hi guys
I just had this thought that to do something about our “murderer-government” (:D :D) we really need you Iraqi people to not work against each other. There is so much suspicion and lies and mistrust…some people working together with OUR government(??), giving them information just so people save their own asses—guys, this country does not work that way! 🙂 ( I understand everybody just do what you need to do, to stay safe..I am not judging, I understand this…)
(Migrant Tales 12.2.2017) Dear Sweden, don’t play ball with the Sweden Democrats – Finland is the best example of the disaster that awaits you
Dear Sweden,
In all of the Nordic region we have seen far-right populist parties rise in this century with a hostile even vicious anti-immigration and anti-cultural diversity agenda. Of all the Nordic countries, you are the only one in the Nordic region where populist anti-immigration parties have not formed directly or indirectly a part of government.