One headline on Yle caught my eye: Finns voted to oust Sanna Marin’s government. Or was it something like this that the New York Times headlined: “Finland’s prime minister toppled in tight election.“ Headlines Madrid’s El País: “The conservatives win the election in Finland, a short distance from the far right [PS].” Here’s my headline suggestion: “Finland continues to deny and…
Tag: exceptionalism
(Migrant Tales 12.2.2017): Dear Sweden, don’t play ball with the Sweden Democrats – Finland is the best example of the disaster that awaits you
Dear Sweden, In all of the Nordic region, we have seen far-right populist parties rise in this century with a hostile even vicious anti-immigration and anti-cultural diversity agenda. Of all the Nordic countries, you are the only one in the Nordic region where populist anti-immigration parties have not formed directly or indirectly a part of government. …
Undocumented migrants in Finland: Päivi Nerg lives in denial, politicians live in denial as do the media and most of the country, too
Finnish immigration policy in general and asylum policy, in particular, is a good example of the decades-long suspicion that Finland’s political establishment has of outsiders. If some words could be used to describe the present state of things, it could be “not my problem” and “denial.”