As the Finnish government spends the Easter holidays in the comfort of their homes and family company, an Iraqi family of nine is awaiting deportation from Finland. It’s difficult, if not impossible, to put oneself in their shoes and wonder what is going through their heads at this moment at the Joutseno immigration removal center. …
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Asylum seekers: Finland is not a country that abides by the rule of law
What does a comment by a police service official say about our country if he obstructs an asylum seekers’ right to justice? Migrant Tales understands that an Iraqi family, made up of a husband, wife, mother-in-law and a child, was told the following by a police official after receiving their first rejection for asylum from the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri).
Finnish immigration policy: Passing the buck and “yalla, yalla” police
The conversation between a policeman and Iraqi asylum seeker who was presumably deported Thursday, revealed in crude fashion how the government of Prime Minister Juha Sipilä in general and Interior Minister Paula Risikko in particular pass the buck when it comes to putting people in harm’s way.
Day 11 of the Helsinki demonstration by Iraqi asylum seekers: “The solution is asylum in Finland”
Xassan Kaafi Maxamed Xalane is a Somali living in Finland who visited Iraqis at the Helsinki Railway Square where they’ve been demonstrating for 12 days. He was kind enough to allow Migrant Tales to publish an interview with one of the demonstrators.
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The demonstration against deportation and tough asylum policies must continue
Over a hundred people have joined a peaceful demonstration that began a week ago on Friday and which shows no sign of letting up was moved from near the Little Parliament to the Helsinki Railway Square. Despite a far-right group called Suomi Ensin (Finland First), which has tried to insult and ruin the demonstration with their…
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A Finnish asylum policy that is doomed to fail
It’s been well over a year since tens of thousands of asylum seekers came to Finland from countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and others. An important watershed in the history of these asylum seekers took place in May, when an assessment by the Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) saw parts of countries like Iraq are safe to return asylum seekers.
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A Finnish asylum policy that is doomed to fail
Why did Finland allocate so much money on asylum reception centers that treated in too many cases refugees like “livestock?”
In 2015 and 2016 some 38,000 asylum seekers came to Finland and scores of asylum reception centers were established rapidly throughout the country to house so many people. Even if the government’s ever-draconian view of migrants was “not make Finland attractive to asylum seekers” at any cost, asylum seekers helped expose our ineffective immigration and integration policy.