Leo Honka Who is Fatima? Who is the person wishing us from the Joutseno immigration removal center a kind, “Good night. Loved ones.” Fatima is only a name. It houses no human because it is only a name written on paper by a plane dropping bombs, a tank shelling civilians, and a woman hoping for
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Migrant Tales Literary: Would you buy a used car from PS’ Timo Soini?
Timo Soini is chairman of the nationalist populist Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party. After the most recent opinion polls showed that the political future of the PS is bleak to say the least, what will Soini do after his party returns to the minor political leagues? Will he start to sell used cars?
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Dos poemas de Roxana Crisólogo Correa
Primer poema Roxana Crisólogo Correa & Una luz moribunda como la que acecha los parques en el centro de Helsinki mi modernísimo teléfono me recuerda con un vip que es el momento de conectarme con el audio de una voz tristísima al otro lado del mundo mi hermana la voz se apertrecha
Read on »Dana: Am alone in a faraway land without my mom
Yes, it’s a few days since I got my citizenship, and you cruel ones got together. You hated me and my mother too. She is gone now. Dana _________ Am alone at home Alone in Finland I cannot cry I am standing in front of you, my enemies, and telling that you are very cruel.
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If you are a Finn, what is a Fonn? Was your flag blue and white, or was it lilac and yellow? Sorry, what was that again? Sano säki mua suks? Or was it san snää mnuu snuuks? So who hates who in this mnuu snuu, I wonder? So, I am the maahanmuuttaja. There
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Boycott تحریم
By Dana نه رفیق و خانواده چهره ها پر از افاده نه در و نه پنجره، راه مهر وموم و قفل و هم چاه نه کلید و رحمت و نور همه کس بگویدت زور تازیانه می زند هار دیو زشت موذی
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: V-Day – one billion rising!
Today marks V-Day, one billion rising, referring to the number of women on the planet who have either been raped or beaten during their lives. Eve Ensler, of The Vagina Monologues fame, has penned a passionate piece calling for women to rise up in protest and men to support them on Valentines Day 2013, in
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Elixir – اکسیر
Elixir – اکسیر By Dana در این دنیای بی حد شرو ظالم خداوندا تویی عادل و عالم In this unlimited evil and cruel world Oh GOD u r the right one and sage به درگاهت شب و روز ای الها بنام هر دم و هر لحظه جانا In
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: A letter to Jesus عیسا سلام
By Dana عیسا سلام ای نرگس زیبای من، عیسی سلام طاير تقدیربی همتای من، عیسی سلام ارغوا ن بنشسته بر اورنگ، شاه مهربان آفتاب لایزال، کشتی و کشتیبان من، عیسی سلام یاسمین، حاذق به هر درد و فغان، شاه زمان شاهراه جاودان، درمانگر و درمان من،عیسی سلام رازقی، خّرم ز رویت هم زمین و آسمان،
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By Dana زارم مکن،خوارم مکن،از غصه بیمارم مکن شلاق را از من جدا،زخمی و بر دارم مکن Don’t feel sorry for me, don’t degrade me, don’t make me feel any sicker from my sorrow Don’t whip me, don’t injure me, don’t send me to the gallows. دیو خموش تیره راخجلان و زندان میکنم آب خنک
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: A warning: Finland
By Dana خشم است خوراک مرد بیمار عاقل نرود پی بد احوال Anger is the food of sick men wiser men don’t feed off such feelings گر زخم زنی به جان نیکان جان تو شود نصیب دیوان If u stab a good human’s spirit ur spirit will end up being
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary:ما بی من شد We was without i
By Dana چشمه اشکم خدا خشکیده شد جمله شبهایم خدا پوسیده شد The river of my tears oh GOD was seared All my nights oh GOD were rotten آن دلاور یار پاک خاطرم در نگاه عاشقم ژولیده شد That brave holy friend of my memories Unkempt in my lover’s look بال و پر ده ای
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Poetic essay for tomatoes and cucumbers
By Dana در دام اگرافتادی، جنگ مکن بیهوده به جان خود وما رشک مکن If u fall in a trap, don’t fight back Vanity and envy won’t help you to be free آشی که تو خود پزی، اول تو خوری پس بر سر خود مزن، برو، خشم مکن The porridge u cook , first
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Summer blooms in Finland*
Growing up and being a Finn in the last century was especially tough. If wars and conflicts didn’t do you in, it was the option of being an immigrant and living with that near-constant yearning and separation in faraway lands. Between 1860 and1999, over 1.2 million Finns emigrated mainly to North America and Sweden. I
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: ترکم مکن Don’t leave me
ای رازهای زندگی ترکم مکن، ای امید سبز ترکم مکن، ای ایمان ابدی با من بمان،ا ی آهنگ خوش صدایم پرواز کن، پرواز، مرا با خود ببر به دوردست هایی که نامش ایران است. به سرزمینی کی ریشه ام آنجا مانده است، به خانه ای که مادرم را دارد ، به اتاقی که پدرم
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: خود من Myself ***present to your inner child ***
بدیدم کودکی در کنج خانه پریشان خسته، اما پر ترانه I saw a child in the corner of the house Distracted, tired, but filled with songs بگفتا یک دم آرامی ندارم
***present to your inner child ***">Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Love
عشق می کوبد به دربت باز کن نور و معنا شو، بیا آواز کن Love bangs on ur door, open it – be light and meaningful, come into song عشق قوت می دهد سر زندگی باز کن آغوش خود همراه شو Love gives
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: خواب زشت Dirty dream
By Dana سرزمین گریه من رعد و طوفانی شده قلب زیبای لطیفم سخت و بارانی شده The land where my tears fall is thundering and stormy My beautiful heart is now hard and rainy موج وحشت میفرستد سوی من هر حادثه قطره های اشک من خونین و گل مالی شده
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary (26.5.2012): Before and After
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Migrant Tales Literary: Right or wrong side up
William Blake wrote: Expect poison from the standing water. No standing water here except for the forest standing… right side up or wrong side up.
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Mother and daughter دختر و مادر
Mother and daughter دختر و مادر By Dana شب و روز منی ای مادر من خیالم فکر من اندیشه تن Ur my night and day oh mother mine My imagination, mind, thought and spirit همه هوش و حواسم فکر و ذکرم دعا تک خواهشم بوی بهشتم All intelligence, my attention, thought and mention Prayer,
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary – Finnish Immigration Service: Biting law نیش قانون
Finnish Immigration Service: Biting law نیش قانون By Dana تو میگریشن پلیس تنها بلایی تو میگریشن پلیس بد نا قلایی U migration police the only pain U migration police r underhanded تو میگریشن پلیس ظالم جفاکار تو میگریشن پلیس زشت و طلبکار U migration police are cruel, bring anguish U migration police are ugly
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: غریبه Garibeh (stranger, wanderer)
غریبه Garibeh (stranger, wanderer) By Dana کجایی اسمان پر ستارم کجا خورشید خانم شیرین نگارم Where r u my sky full of stars Where r u Ms. Sun, u sweet darling کجا ای مادر زیبای نازم کجا ای مهربانم دلنوازم دلنوازم Where r u my beautiful cute mother Where oh my kind, my hospitable
Read on »An immigrant’s life in Finland:* Dana misses her family
Things may get worse before they improve for Dana since Christian Democrat minister of the interior, Päivi Räsänen, announced plans last year to tighten further family reunification rules.
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Yearning never waits
I made one of the greatest discoveries of my life in 1998 at the Finnish Seamen’s Church of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Even if such pleasant interior landscapes no longer witness my silence and stance, they are now distant memories that have turned into spacious imaginary cities in the mind where each building has a tale to tell, whispering.
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: Poem – Beyond Recognition
BEYOND RECOGNITION Part I Jella played with the sand, spade digging earnestly at the dry earth. Jaref thrust out a hand, grabbing thief-like, as older brothers do. Jella cried. First in despair, but then in the corner of the yard, there under the peeling gable, standing troubled, forlorn, like a totem of the oppressed. Jaref
Read on »Migrant Tales wants to hear your story
Thanks to you, Migrant Tales has achieved one of its most important aims: “To be a voice for those whose views and situation are understood poorly and heard faintly by the media, politicians and public.” In order for our voice to be heard by politicians, civil servants and the general public, we would like to publish more stories about your experiences in Finland.
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: The expatriate and the meaning of the four seasons of Finland
Three matters happen to some of us when we move to a foreign country: We learn to live with separation and yearning. Some of us grasp as well that in each farewell we die a little as the French poet, Edmond Haraucourt, once wrote.
Read on »Migrant Tales Literary: New World Finn – People in the Summer Night
Visiting Finland in the summer from Southern California was like diving directly into Frans Emil Silanpää’s People in the Summer Night (Ihmiset suviyössä). While Silanpää’s words carry us gently to those magic summer landscapes of Finland, which have a low-hum sonance to them, there is as well a lachrymose tune in the background that gets louder as summer begins to shut itself off.
Read on »Migrant Tales literary blog?
Would launching a separate “little” literary blog (Migrant Tales “Little”?) be a good idea? It would publish poetry, short stories, short plays, drawings. anecdotes, and pictures of our lives in Finland and elsewhere. Depending on how this lifts off, we could even organize contests.
Read on »Finland also locks up asylum seeker children
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- A child in the Joutseno Immigration Removal Center.
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