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Detained Iraqi asylum seeker SH: “I hope to go back to work”

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Migrant Tales

Today Iraqi asylum seeker SH, who was detained with KM on January 6, has been detained at Helsinki’s Metsälä immigration removal center for 24 days. SH said that he was interviewed today by the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) concerning his new asylum application.

“We didn’t talk about my release from here because that wasn’t the aim of the interview with Migri,” he said by phone. “My lawyer will apply for a new work permit because the existing one expires on February 10.”

The balcony of the immigration removal center where SH takes a smoking break. YLE published a story about his case on Friday.

SH believes that he’ll be released after the lawyer proves to the authorities that there is no reason for keeping him detained.

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A letter to the Prime Minister of Finland Juha Sipilä: “I plead with you so I can have my fiancé back at my side”

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Migrant Tales

Honorable Prime Minister,

I turn to you because my fiancé was detained and locked up by the police. He is in danger of being deported back to Iraq from Finland.

Allow me to introduce myself: I’m a Finnish woman who lives in the region of Varsinais-Suomi with two children, I’m pregnant and want to get married. Honorable Prime Minister, I’m stricken with deep sadness today because I miss my fiancé so much. Even if we’re separated, we sleep together with the children. Both of us have our mobile phones next to us so we can see our faces thanks to a videophone application.

We met the first time at the garden of my house. My future fiancé appeared with different colored roses. He built a lighted statue from a watering can. My fiancé is hard-working, loyal and a good construction worker, gardener and remodels homes. In his former homeland, he was a stonemason who worked with marble.

The painting, which was made by the author, is called “Apstrakt.”

He is my true love, a father to my children and a source of pride for my parents. We first lived in a paradise contentedly but then everything turned into a nightmare in January, when the police took him away from me when we went to the police station to find out the decision of the district court concerning his asylum case. We were very stressed before visiting the police and asked ourselves near-constantly if the appeal was accepted or not. We believed that the court would rule in our favor but the opposite happened.
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Posted on January 29, 2017 by Migrant Tales

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Kirje Suomen Pääministerille Juha Sipilä: “Vetoan Tehin, haluan mieheni takaisin kotiin”

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Migrant Tales

Hyvä Pääministeri,

Käännyn Teidän puoleenne, koska minun sulhaseni otettiin säilöön, ja häntä uhkaa karkotus Suomesta entiseen kotimaahansa Irakiin.

Kerron vähän itsestäni: olen suomalainen nainen, asun Varsinais- Suomessa kahden pienen lapsen kanssa, olen raskaana ,ja haluamme mennä naimisiin. Herra pääministeri, minulla on suuri suru ja ikävoin miestäni niin paljon, että nukumme yhdessä lasten kanssa. Me molemmat pidämme puhelimet kädessä ,jotta näkisimme toistemme kasvot koko yön videopuhelimen kautta.

Malaus, jonka on tehnyt kirjoittaja, on nimeltä “Apstrakti.”

Tapasin ensimmäistä kertaa mieheni kotini puutarhassa. Hän saapui eriväristen ruusujen kanssa. Sina aikana mieheni rakensi kastelukannuista valopatsaita. Hän on minun suuri rakkauteni, lapsilleni isä ja vanhempieni ylpeys. Miehestäni voisin kertoo, että hän on ahkera, lojaali ja taitava rakennusmies, puutarhuri ja tekee remonttitöitä. Kotimaassaan hän teki marmoritöitä.

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(Institute of Race Relations) Morton Hall: another death in immigration detention

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Migrant Tales

Harmit Athwal

On 11 January an unnamed 27-year-old Polish man was found dead in Morton Hall immigration removal centre in Lincolnshire, the first death this year and the 29th death in immigration detention since 1989.

It was reported by the Unity Centre that the man was found hanged in his room at the centre. He had apparently been refused bail before Christmas as there was no surety and his girlfriend, who was heavily pregnant at the time of the hearing, was unable to travel. Their baby was apparently born on the day of his death. Morton Hall, unlike most other removal centres, is run by the Home Office rather than a private company.

Of the three people who died in immigration detention last year, one died at Morton Hall, just six weeks ago, on 6 December. According to the Unity Centre, the 49-year-old man, possibly from Sierra Leone, who had been in the UK for 27 years, had served a six-month sentence for using false documents and had subsequently been in immigration detention for two years. A few days before his death he had become ill and was taken to hospital and later died.

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AntroBlogi: “Voitko kertoa tarinani suomalaisille” – kertomus paperittomuudesta

Posted on January 27, 2017 by Migrant Tales

Tassä on podcast linkki.

Teksti: Annastiina Kallius, VTM Podcast-lukija: Bruno Gronow

Hakam istui veljensä olohuoneessa pienessä kaupungissa keski-Ranskassa, minä kahvilassa Helsingissä, kun hän Facebookin välityksellä pyysi minua kertomaan tarinansa suomalaisille. Hakamista oli monen mutkan kautta tullut paperiton: ihminen joka elää maassa ilman oleskelulupaa.

Paperittomuus on ollut paljon esillä suomalaisessa mediassa, ja taistelu termeistä on lujaa. Sisäministeriö puhuu ”laittomasti maassa olevista”, asiantuntijat ja järjestöt ”paperittomista” ja kirkko ”suojattomista”. Useimmiten paperittomuudesta puhutaan uutena ilmiönä. Silloin viitataan niihin turvapaikanhakijoihin, jotka ovat saapuneet Suomeen vuonna 2015, mutta eivät ole saaneet turvapaikkaa tai oleskelulupaa. Kuten suomalaiset maahanmuuton asiantuntijat ovat todenneet, ilmiö juontaa juurensa hallituksen maahanmuuttopolitiikkaan – erityisesti humanitaarisen suojelun poistamiseen Suomen lainsäädännöstä keväällä 2016.

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DH’s Finnish fiancée speaks about his detention and possible deportation to Iraq: “This is so nerve-racking and unfair!”

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Migrant Tales

The Supermen

DH was detained on Sunday by the police in Pori and his fiancée, who is eight weeks pregnant, claims that the police set up a trap for her partner.

“We asked the police on the phone if they could read the decision [by the district court],” she said. “They said we had to go to the police station to get the answer. When we went there, they detained DH.”

According to DH’s fiancée, the second rejection for asylum was received so late that there was no time to appeal the decision to the supreme district court.

DH’s fiancée is a graphic artist. This painting by her is called “Waiting for you.”

“The police in Pori treated DH and my family in a very rude and racist manner,” she said. “His rights were breached. He was forced to undress and not allowed to make any phone calls or take visits [while in Pori].”

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Posted on January 25, 2017 by Migrant Tales

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CORRECTION: Sixth Iraqi asylum seeker detained by police facing deportation to Iraq

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Migrant Tales

Migrant Tales has learned of a new case of an Iraqi asylum seeker, DH, who was detained Sunday in Pori and is now awaiting deportation to Iraq* at the Metsälä detention center. It is the sixth detention that comes to our attention since January 6.

*An earlier story incorrectly stated that DH was awaiting deportation to Turkey, his former home and where some of his relatives live. DH faces deportation to Iraq.

He lives in Pori with a Finnish woman who is eight-weeks pregnant.

According to his partner, the police detained him without any warning at 10 am Sunday, DH was mistreated physically by the police his partner said.

“The judge sided with the police,” she continued, “claiming that it was DH that had tried to take his passport from the police’s hand.”

We will report on this newest case of another Iraqi asylum seeker who faces deportation to Iraq in two weeks.

DH is the latest Iraqi to be detained by the police. He awaits deportation to Turkey.

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Posted on January 24, 2017 by Migrant Tales

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