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Suomen hallituksen uudella kansalaisuuslailla ei ole mitään tekemistä kotouttamisen kanssa

Posted on May 7, 2024May 7, 2024 by Migrant Tales

Suunnitelmat kansalaisuuslain tiukentamiseksi paljastavat pääministeri Petteri Orpon hallituksen huomattavan historiallisen muistinmenetyksen. Tiesittekö, että Suomi kielsi naisilta, joiden ylpeästi väitetään saaneen ensimmäisenä Euroopassa äänioikeuden, oikeuden antaa kansalaisuus lapsilleen? Vain miehellä oli tällainen oikeus ja etuoikeus.

Vuonna 1984, noin 66 vuotta itsenäistymisen jälkeen, naiset saivat vihdoin oikeuden antaa kansalaisuuden lapsilleen jus sanguinis -periaatteen mukaisesti.

Lähde: Valtionuevosto

Lain muuttaminen kesti noin 66 vuotta, eikä vieläkään, 40 vuotta myöhemmin, ole pyydetty anteeksi sitä, että se mullisti monien ihmisten elämän. Sen sijaan hallitus haluaa vaikeuttaa kansalaisuutta.

Voit kysyä, miten vanha laki, joka ei sallinut naisten siirtää kansalaisuutta lapsilleen, muutti tällaisten ihmisten elämää. Suomen valtion pitäisi pyytää anteeksi tällaista epäoikeudenmukaista ja seksististä lakia.

The Finnish government’s new citizenship law is a house of mirrors

Posted on May 7, 2024May 7, 2024 by Migrant Tales

Plans to tighten the citizenship law expose a remarkable case of historic amnesia of Prime Minister Petteri Orpo’s government. Did you know that Finland denied women, whom they proudly claim were the first to get suffrage rights in Europe, the right to give citizenship to their children? It was only the man who had such a right and privilege.

In 1984, about 66 years after independence, women were finally granted the right to give citizenship to their children under jus sanguinis.

Source: Valtioneuvosto.

It took about 66 years to change the law and still, 40 years later, there is no apology that upended many people’s lives. Instead, the government wants to make citizenship more difficult.

You may ask how the old law that did not allow women to pass on citizenship to their children, changed such people’s lives. The Finnish state should offer an apology for such an exclusive law.

MP Heikki Vestman is one of the main anti-immigration ideologues of the National Coalition Party of Finland

Posted on May 5, 2024May 5, 2024 by Migrant Tales

National Coalition Party (NCP) MP and chairperson of the constitutional committee, Heikki Vestman, is making a name for himself by promoting xenophobia. In a previous post, Migrant Tales published how Vestman was using Islamophobia and bullying tactics to gain attention and power.

His rhetoric has turned him into one of the main anti-immigration ideologues of the NCP. He is in the same shameless league as his NCP partner, Atte Kaleva.

MP Heikki Vestman is one of the leading anti-immigration ideologues of the NCP. Read the full story here.

Vestman, who also chaired the immigration committee in the government’s program negotiations, washes his hand by stating that the tightening of immigration policy is to bring our laws in line with other Nordic countries.

That assertion is debatable. Migration Institute researcher Erna Bodström compares the changes to East Europe rather than other Nordic countries.

In his usual anti-immigration style, where Vestman sees himself as a savior of our Nordic way of life, he believes that the tightening of the citizenship act will help “integrate” people.

“The citizenship act encourages people to settle in Finland, learn the language, acquire basic knowledge of society measured by a citizenship test, follow the rules of the country, and work for their livelihood.”

The pushback law of the Finnish government will fail and be a farce

Posted on May 4, 2024May 4, 2024 by Migrant Tales

A question to Interior Minister Mari Rantanen and Prime Minister Petteri Orpo: Is the main motivation of the pushback law to strengthen the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* policy of zero asylum seekers? Why are asylum seekers coming from Russia such a threat to Finland’s internal security?

The fact that a total of 1,271 asylum seekers have come to the country via the eastern border from August 2023 to January 2024, raises some questions that the media skips. Knowing the PS’ and Ntional. Coalition Party’s negative attitude towards Muslims and other non-European asylum seekers, is the main reason to keep asylum seekers from Muslm-majority countries from coming here?

The last thing that the new law will do is solve Finland’s asylum issues at the Finnish-Russian border. Source: Yle

The grand majority (80.88%) of asylum seekers at the Finnish-Russian border come from Muslim-majority countries. During August 2023-January 29, 2024, of the total 1,271 asylum seekers, 1,028 (80.88%) were Syrian (491 people), Somalian (360), Yemeni (120), and Iraqi (57) nationals, according to Yle News.

Did over 32,000 asylum seekers in 2015, mainly from Iraq and Afghanistan, pose a threat to internal security? What about the tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees who have come to Finland?

Another factor that is a blow to Rantanen’s pushback law is her credibility and her long political career of posting racist comments about asylum seekers.

For the above reasons, the government’s pushback law is a farce that will do more harm than good.

Does Rantanen believe that a law will stop people from crossing the border?

That is wishful thinking and just another example of what such borders do in the EU: they bring suffering and death.