#Nuoriso, #vanhemmat ja #viranomaise – vastuut ja epätasa-arvon haasteet! Rakenteellinen syrjintä ja rasismi heikentävät yhdenvertaisuutta viranomaistyössä, ja pahimmillaan ne toimijat, joiden tulisi tukea nuoria, sulkevat heidät ulos tärkeistä palveluista ja mahdollisuuksista. Tämä epäoikeudenmukaisuus ei koske kaikkia nuoria samalla tavalla, vaan kohtelu riippuu usein heidän taustastaan. Kantaväestöön kuuluvat nuoret ja maahanmuuttajataustaiset nuoret kohdataan eri tavoin –…
Iraqi asylum seekers in Finland: Awaiting and living under the axe of deportation
Deportation is one of the cruelest matters about migration. Another deportation ruling hangs over an Iraqi family of five who has lived in Finland for ten years. Tragic is the fate of the children, aged 16, 14 and 7 years, who don’t read and write in Arabic and remember their parents’ former home country through…
The ever-greying of Finland and our new citizenship
Twenty-eight years ago I wrote in a Finland Bridge column about the greying of Finland. Even if Finland has the third-oldest population in the world after Japan and Italy. Has anything changed since 1997 and what are the solutions to our demographic woes? Some far-fetched solutions I suggested back then was to raise the retirement…
Fabricated charges will not silence me
Former Perussuomalaiset* and today Center Party councilperson Tanja Hartonen’s attack on me is a good example of political revenge aimed at silencing me and Migrant Tales. I am sure that all these made-up stories about what I said at city committee meeting will not stand the light of day. The truth is that Hartonen became…
Mistaking your identity
In a world where migration constantly weaves new identities and is even seen as a threat to national identities, countries in Europe are throwing all their political weight to slow such a natural process. Being from a multicultural and multinational background can be a problem in a world that sees new identities as a threat….
Mahad Sheikh Musse (Facebook): Suomen pitkä rasismin historia
The fall of (US)America
The 5 November US presidential election will be remembered as the alarm that signifies the end of USAmerica and when all of its contradictions caught up with it and destroyed it. Nothing good can come out of a second Trump term except for more global and national chaos. The US poet Allan Ginsberg (1926-1997) put…
Opitaan Fingliska Mara-Liisa Tolvasen kanssa
Tapasin Mara-Liisa Tolvasen Thunder Bayssä Kanadassa vuonna 2006. Thunder Bay (Tunterpei) on kaupunki, jossa on paljon suomalaistaustaisia. Marja-Liisa oli niin ystävällinen, että hän antoi minulle sanakirjan, jossa on joitakin Fingliska-sanoja. Sanoja Saulstemarie tai Suustemarie = Sault St. Marie Supperi = Sudbury Tunterpei = Thunder Bay Vankkuuveri = Vancouver Vinnipekki = Winnipeg Rutto = Trudeau (ent….
Länsi-Savo: Rasismi ja syrjintä ovat yhä vakavia ongelmia
MP Heikki Vestman throws the rule of law and asylum seekers under the bus
Thanks to National Coalition Party (NCP) MP and chairperson of the constitutional committee, Heikki Vestman, Finland regressed to the days of the cold war, when human rights was seen as a negative matter because it jeopardized our relationship with the former Soviet Union. Vestman, who has been accused of throwing the rule of law and…