Kansainvälistyminen on mahdollisuus. Näin kuvasi myös Mikkelin kaupunginjohtaja Janne Kinnunen Länsi-Savon haastattelussa 9.6. Etelä-Savon ja Mikkelin väestökehityksen näkökulmasta se on jopa välttämättömyys. Väestön väistämättä ikääntyessä ja vähetessä kohtaamme merkittäviä haasteita erityisesti työvoiman saatavuudessa. Tarvitsemme uusia asukkaita, sekä edellytyksiä yrityksille ottaa vastaan työvoimaa myös Suomen rajojen ulkopuolelta. Suomalainen yhteiskunta on aina ollut monimuotoinen, ja ihmiset edustavat…
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European MEP elections: The Finnish far right has an immigration dependency problem
Just like a junkie craving for a shot, the campaign by the far-right Perussuomalaiset (PS)* showed revealed their immigration dependency problem. Like a gas pedal, the PS has stepped on the immigration topic to attract voters. Immigration is a highly politicized topic in Finland as well and directly related to the success of the PS…
Left Alliance MEP candidate Paco Diop strives to be a voice for the voiceless and oppressed
Migrant Tales does not usually publish candidates, but we do make exceptions. MEP candidate Paco Diop of the Left Alliance is that exception. Diop, who hails from Turku and is a preschool teacher, states on YLE’s election compass three core values as an MEP candidate: “Human rights, respect for nature, and animal rights.” The rise…
The majority (66%) of Finnish MEP candidates of government parties would allow asylum seekers to die
Remember the last 2019 European election? Migrant Tales created quite a stir when it named the candidates who would allow asylum seekers to drown while coming to Europe. We wrote in 2019: The Alma Median EU election compass shows that (85/234) MEP candidates of the Perussuomalaiset* and National Coalition Party (NCP) were the most eager to allow…
The Finnish government’s vile 11 months in power
“When a clown moves into a palace he doesn’t become a king, the place becomes a circus.” A Turkish proverb Finland has turned into a show of lying politicians who no longer rely on facts but on prejudice and bigotry. Even if we mention the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party, National Coalition Party’s (NCP) Prime Minister Petteri…
Rasismi Laajasalossa 2024
Yleensä aina kun humalainen henkilö on paikalla, tiedän, että se tarkoittaa yleensä ongelmia. Rasmuksen julkaisemassa videossa päihtynyt mies paasaa rasistisesti naista ja hänen lastaan vastaan. Jos tunnistat videolla esiintyvän henkilön, ota yhteyttä poliisiin. Oheinen video saattaa sisältää voimakasta kielenkäyttöä, joka saattaa häiritä joitakin ihmisiä. Katsojien harkintaa suositellaan. Katso video täältä.
The Finnish government’s new citizenship law is a house of mirrors
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…
Today’s A-studio talk concerning the pushback law was an insult to one’s intelligence
Today’s A-studio with Perussuomalaiset (PS)* MP Mauri Peltokangas, head of the administration committee, and MP Tytti Tupparainen of the Social Democratic Party was disappointing when they spoke of the law on “refoulement,” also popularly known as the “pushback law.” Source: Google Even if Tupparainen said that human rights were a cornerstone of Finland’s rule of…
The Finnish media and its stenography journalism on writing about migrants and asylum seekers
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” Malcolm X Day in and day out I see nothing more these days than hostile and negative news about migrants, especially asylum seekers, who are wrongly called “illegal” migrants. These…
How Yle spreads and reinforces xenophobia with the help of stenography journalism
It is surprising that Finland’s national broadcaster, Yle, spreads xenophobia and suspicion of asylum seekers via its news reporting. Yle, never calls people attempting to enter Finland via the Finnish-Russian border asylum seekers but people who are attempting to enter the country illegally. The narrative spread by Yle reporters is a toothless stenographic copy of…