This has got to be one of the strangest stories I’ve read on YLE in English. It claims that lifting visa requirements for Russians would create thousands of job in Finland. Is xenophobia so ingrained in some Finns that they still think that foreigners and Russians are such a threat that they don’t grasp that tourism, never…
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Migrant Tales Literary: Unleashed hope (Part II)
By Anonymous hope is near when we hope! hope is dear where there is hope! hope helps us bear and makes us not lose hope! hope helps us not fear atrocities for we hope! hopes creates a new layer on the skin torn by rope! of adversity and hardships that we bear for…
Migrant Tales Literary: Unleashed hope (Part I)
By Anonymous Migrant Tales…Migrant Tales…Migrant Tales! you gave others and myself hope when there was nope for East and West I probe South and North nope I drop for there was no one nope unheard around the globe nor nothing to hang the rope for there was a steep slope of a…
Migrant Tales Literary: Sharp-sighted bird and the Yellow Crocodile Kingdom
By Dana Once upon a day there were a pair of birds who made their first egg… after a short while the egg broke and a female baby bird emerged and tweeted her first song… Her parents were shocked and asked how come the little bird was so different from other ones…the bird had big…
Migrants’ Rights Network: Not Talking is Not Safe
Sarah Crowther* Community leaders need to address all topics, including those considered taboo among migrant and refugee communities, because the sooner we start the sooner we will all be able to engage properly in the arguments that make up integrated society. 1.0 Certain subjects are taboo (?really?) Certain subjects are taboo. You can’t possibly talk…
Migrants’ Rights Network: Immigration is an important factor in Conservative rise in the polls
MT comment: Solid analysis by Awale Olad on what role the anti-immigrant message will play in the polls and upcoming elections in the United Kingdom. The delicate balancing act involves anti-immigration rhetoric, which could be ignited by the government’s Immigration Bill, and scaring away those votes it needs to capture, according to Olad. With…
Darling Baba (Dad): You no longer need a visa to Finland
MT comment: I was sorry to hear from Dana that her father passed away. Two months ago her mother left her. She had been waiting for three years to bring her parents to her side under Finland’s strict family reunification law, which was tightened in 2011. Finland shows its human face by accepting refugees but then…
Migrant Tales Literary: Hey Universe, Finnish Law beats me up
By Dana Dear universe, This is my lonely life in Finland… Finnish law beats me up in different ways, no/one nowhere takes responsibility; there’s not one place in Helsinki that i can go to complain about my loneliness and separation from my loved ones. No/one will listen to me because if i ask a question…
Migrant Tales Literary: Moment of my world
By Dana Can you see the happiness of a tree when it is dancing with the wind? When the wind sings a song of war can you listen and move forward? Can you talk with the wet grass under your feet? Or can you dance with your big tears? Can you laugh when you cry?…
Confessions of a recovering racist
Society has achieved at least one significant victory in the fight against racism – it has succeeded in making open racism a dirty concept. The power of stigma that worked so effectively to reinforce racism has been harnessed to turn the tide against open discrimination – at least in polite society. Today, in most public…