Migrant Tales will begin to publish the Foreign Student, the newsletter of the Foreign Students Club of Helsinki. The January 1981 issue was the first newsletter, which came out 11 times until January 1982. The Foreign Student played an important role in giving migrants a voice during a period when foreigners were supposed to remain quiet about their civil rights.
When the Foreign Student was published about 11,000 foreigners lived in Finland. Most of these foreigners were Finns who were naturalized Swedes.
It also helped to drive up membership of the club and gave the foreign community a needed voice.
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Read all the Foreign Students here:
Foreign Student: February 1981
Foreign Student: September 1981
Foreign Student: November 1981
Foreign Student: December 1981