Tuleva sisäministeri Päivi Räsänen (kd) saa hoitaakseen maahanmuuttoasiat. Jyrki Kataisen (kok) ensimmäisessä hallituksessa ei ole edellisen hallituksen tapaan erillistä maahanmuuttoministeriä vaan nämä tehtävät siirtyvät sisäministerin hoidettavaksi.
Tag: immigration
Migrant’s life: The call to ancestral homes
There are many types of countries but there is one quality that unites them: They are full of contradictions. No other person sees and feels these contradictions so markedly than the immigrant.
Finnish Americans tell us what immigration is
Here is an interesting 18:18-minute video on some interviews of second- to fourth-generation Finnish Americans who give their insight on immigration.
guardian.co.uk: This multiculturalism debate is not about culture
The idea that there is a distinct set of British values is a myth. All cultures are multi-cultures – this debate is being used as a proxy. The debate about multiculturalism is hotting up. It also clearly splits the coalition, as the contrasting speeches of David Cameron and Nick Clegg have shown.
STT: Pakolaisneuvonta: Väärät tiedot perheenyhdistämisistä ruokkivat rasismia
Pakolaisten perheenyhdistämisissä on saapunut Suomeen vuosittain keskimäärin 329 ihmistä, ilmenee sisäministeriön tilastoista. Tieto koskee viimeisten 12 vuoden ajanjaksoa.
New World Finn: My Finnish identity is fine
A reader recently surprised me on my blog, Migrant Tales, affirming that Finnish Americans are not Finns. “They weren’t born, raised in Finland nor do they speak Finnish; some of them have never visited Finland,” he wrote. “I wonder how many could point to Finland on a map.”
MailOnline: Why there is a cost to curbing immigration?
David Cameron said recently: ‘We are taking on the enemies of enterprise. The bureaucrats in government departments who concoct those ridiculous rules and regulations that make life impossible.’ And last month we had a ‘Budget for Growth’.
Migrant Tales memorable quotes of the week to March 28
Migrant Tales publishes on Monday some interesting quotes on the ongoing immigration debate in Finland and elsewhere. If you have some quotes you would like to share with us, please forward them to [email protected]. ET
Migrant Tales memorable quotes of the week to March 7
Migrant Tales publishes on Monday some interesting quotes on the ongoing immigration debate in Finland and elsehwhere. If you have some quotes you would like to share with us, please forward them to [email protected]. ET
Dear Anti-Immigration groups
My great grandfather was a refugee from Italy. I admire and respect him so much that I gave one of my sons his first name. I have lived in many countries as an immigrant and I am proud of this as well.