There has been a lot of debate about the present government tightening further family reunification laws. It shouldn’t come to any surprise that such measures not only reveal hostility towards asylum seekers, migrants, and minorities but are an example of white Finnish privilege in its most extreme forms.
Even if the Constitution guarantees that everyone in Finland is equal before the law, the truth is that you’re not. If you have Finnish citizenship your ok but if you are a foreigner or an asylum seeker that got a residence permit, it’ll be virtually impossible and costly to bring your wife and kids to this country.
Why?
Because this government, which comprises of the Perussuomalaiset (PS)*, Center Party and National Coalition Party, is openly hostile to Others.
We’ve known it all along that even naturalized Finns aren’t equal before the law because they’re not considered “real” Finns but are people with “foreign backgrounds.”
If the government has its way with the passage of the new law, a person has to make 2,600 euros a month after taxes if he wants to bring his spouse and two children.
Even if the government states that such laws are important because they discourage asylum seekers from coming to Finland, it is just another PS anti-immigration ploy with the support of the Center Party and NCP to keep Finland white.
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