Come an watch today at 7 pm a wonderful play reflecting these troubled times at Botta, Museokatu 10, Helsinki. Below is a review that Migrant Tales wrote about Helsinki Noir at the end of December. “Writer and director Ahti Tolvanen, who is a member of the Migrant Tales board, has written a play that reflects hard and…
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Helsinki Noir: A play reflecting troubled times
THE REVIEW WAS UPDATED Writer and director Ahti Tolvanen, who is a member of the Migrant Tales board, has written a play that reflects hard and uncertain times for Finland. When Ahti came to Finland in the 1970s, it was a very different country. For one, its foreign policy, which some criticized as Finlandization, attempted…
Suspected hate crimes soar to a record level in Finland in 2023
THE STORY WAS UPDATED A record number of suspected hate crimes* were reported in 2023, rising by 28.99% to 1,606 cases compared with 1,245 cases the previous year, according to the Police University College. The author of the report, Jenita Ranta, blamed “societal factors” like the Russian aggression in Ukraine, and the poor economic situation…
Karolina Budzisz: Tales of our own
Migrant Tales insight: Throughout the years, Migrant Tales has received a lot of recognition. The latest one is from Karolina Budzisz, who wrote her thesis on anti-racism voices in Finland. During the past seventeen years, we have kept true to our goal: It aims to be a voice for those whose views and situation are…
Any Russian asylum seekers? Migrant Tales wants to contact you.
We are seeking to speak with any person who has in any way been sent by Russian officials to Finland since August 2023 as an asylum seeker – or anyone who knows such a person. As you know the Petteri Orpo government is seeking to adopt a law to turn such persons away at the…
CALL FOR ARTICLES FOR A NEW VERSION OF STRANGE DAYS
CALL FOR ARTICLES Contributions invited on the real-life dilemmas of immigrating to Finland for a sequel to the book Strange Days (1984). Send in your proposals for including an article of 6 to 10 pages to [email protected]. Short summaries will be used to invite writers to draft an article for the book to be published…
Happy New Year from Migrant Tales!
Sandra Alloush’s “In Your Eyes” is a documentary about migrants surviving in today’s Europe
To part is to die a little,What you love dies:You leave a little of yourselfAt any time and in any place. Edmund Haraucourt (1856-1941) In Your Eyes is a documentary about migrants in Europe by Sandra Alloush, a Syrian refugee, journalist and documentarist, in collaboration with Enrique Tessieri, editor of Migrant Tales, a community blog…
Big demonstration today against against PM Petteri Orpo’s racist and fascist government. Be there!
Visit official site and program here.
Migrant Tales: down but not out
Migrant Tales is a target of hostile hackers who disagree with our views. The last attack was the worst, forcing the site to shut down for a week. We expect to have everything working normally this week. While these attacks aim to shut us up, they only make us more determined and prove that our…