One matter is clear when you live in a society and the country’s institutions see asylum seekers as inferior human beings we leave the door open to all kinds of abuse. A good example of how little power asylum seekers have in Finland is the family of nine that has been locked up at the Joutseno immigration removal center. If an asylum seeker is lucky enough to get work, that too can become an exercise in exploitation.
Tag: Iraq
Finland plans to deport another family with four children aged 1 to 6 years to Iraq
Even if former Finnish President Tarja Halonen (2006-2012) said today that deportations of asylum seekers should be suspended until the authorities have updated their security information of Afghanistan, Iraq and especially Syria, according to YLE News, there are plans to deport yet another Iraqi family with four children to their home country on Friday, April 28. …
The fate of the Iraqi family of nine who may end up deported still hangs in the balance
The family of nine from Iraq, who are detained at the Joutseno immigration removal center in southeast Finland, sent a letter to Prime Minister Sipilä. It is beyond any person with a minimum sense of justice how children, between the ages of 1.5 and 14, can be detained like common criminals.
A message from a 13-year-old asylum seeker girl that will be deported: “Good night”
The ordeal of the Iraqi family of nine that is expects to be deported possibly Wednesday hasn’t ended but there is hope despite everything. One of the children of the family, who is 13, sends a message below from the immigration removal center at Joutseno: “Good night.” The youngest member of the family is 1.5…
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Finland to deport a family of nine to Iraq – youngest child 1.5 years and the eldest 14
Now it has come to this: A family of seven children from Karbala, Iraq, who came to Finland in 2015 will be most likely deported on Wednesday. The youngest is a year and a half and the oldest 14 years old.
Iraqi asylum seeker in Finland: I’m building my home here and getting married this week
Whenever an asylum seeker, irrespective of how many times his or her application for asylum got turned down, there is one matter that must be done: write, write and write.
“MZ” is the latest Iraqi asylum seeker to be deported from Finland to Iraq
A woman who was separated from her Iraqi asylum seeker boyfriend after having a relationship for 18 months. I asked if I could call her. She responded: “I am now too tired to speak on the phone. I’m sad and mentally broken by what happened to me and my fiancé.”
Finland the place where you sought shelter and asylum but were told crudely to fuck off!
Speaking to an Iraqi asylum seeker Monday who came to Finland in October 2015 made me tremendously sad. He lives in northern Finland with his children, wife and newly born baby who is less than half a year old today. Family, children, new life in a new country away from the violence of his former homeland should be cause for celebration, right?
How interpreters, the police service and Finnish Immigration service mislead asylum seekers
I came up with the following issues when translating some asylum decision cases from the Finnish police service: