The reception center of Mänttä-Vilpula is closing at the end of 2020. All asylum seekers at the reception center were told that they will be relocating/ transferring to reception centers in other cities. Some of the asylum seekers are currently studying at Mänttä school and are permitted to stay and continue their studies in the
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Finland’s asylum reception centers are like a game of Russian roulette without bullets
I got an SMS today from an asylum seeker at the Suosaaren reception center: “Just now I was told that an Afghan guy tried yesterday to commit suicide by slitting his wrist. The ambulance and police arrived at 3:30pm.”
Read on »Three men assaulted near Mikkeli three Iraqi asylum seekers with an axe and small shovel
Three men in a red GMC SUV attacked three Iraqi asylum seekers from the Suonsaari asylum reception center near Mikkeli on Sunday at 2 – 2:30 am, according to sources close to the case. The men in the SUV attacked the three asylum seekers with an axe and garden shovel as they were biking to the asylum reception center.
Read on »What’s going on at the Kolari, Finland, asylum reception center?
There’s been a lot of news as of late from the small town of Kolari, where the location of Finland’s northernmost asylum center is. If I were forced to live there, I would probably go crazy too.
Read on »Two videos and a picture of the protest by asylum seekers at the Kolari reception center in Finland
Some 120 asylum seekers at the Kolari asylum reception center in Lapland took part in a protest today to demand better treatment. “Today it went well,” an asylum seeker told Migrant Tales. “Everyone was outside protesting, even children, except for four people.” One resident described the camp was like being “in a living hell.” Kolari
Read on »The Kolari, Finland, asylum recepetion center “is a living hell”
Kolari is a town of 3,857 people located 166km north of Tornio and about 80km north of the Arctic Circle. The town also has an asylum reception that houses about 150 people, or 5% of the town’s population, located 4-5km from the town center.
Read on »Security guards at Luona’s Pitäjänmäki reception center continue to treat asylum seekers with disrespect
Migrant Tales continues to hear about how some security guards at Luona, a private company that operates eight asylum reception centers in Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, and Hyvinkää, abuse their power. In February, the company’s general manager, Milja Saksi, said that the company has taken the necessary steps to address the racist treatment of its asylum seekers.
Read on »Pieksämäki reception center fire shows that the Finnish media and police service consider asylum seekers “guilty before proven innocent”
It is surprising that the Länsi-Savo story below doesn’t mention once the term “suicide” in the story about an Iraqi 45-year-old asylum seeker who locked himself in Thursday night and attempted to set his room on fire.
Read on »An asylum seeker at Villa Meri reception center is on hunger strike protesting poor treatment by the staff
One refugees at the Villa Meri asylum reception center in the western city of Rauma is on hunger strike denouncing the poor treatment by the staff. The reception center is run by a private company, Hoivapalvelu Metsätähti, which is owned by Helsinki-based Mehiläinen, a private health care company.
Read on »How many former asylum seekers from Luona got jobs thanks to a fast-track employment scheme?
How is it possible that a fast-track hiring scheme for former asylum seekers at Barona, an employment agency that owns Luona, a private subsidiary that manages eight asylum reception centers in Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, and Hyvinkää, gets a lot of attention in Helsingin Sanomat?
Read on »Recovering Afghan who attempted suicide wants to leave Finland
The 23-24-year-old Afghan, who attempted to take his life Friday night, is recovering at a hospital and has asked to be deported from Finland after he recovers, according to a source contacted by Migrant Tales.
Read on »Abuse of asylum seekers at Luona’s reception centers continues despite assurances that they don’t permit “racist behavior”
Migrant Tales understands that asylum seekers at Luona, a private company that manages eight reception centers, continue to suffer abuse. Luona employees with foreign backgrounds treat asylum seekers in a racist and inhumane manner, according to a source.
Read on »An arson attack against an asylum reception center in Finland gets a mixed response
Juha Maenpää, the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* substitute MP, who wrote that the burning of an asylum reception center in Niinisalo Monday was how god answered his prayers, is an indication of how xenophobia has overtaken Finland. Reaction to what he said are highly revealing as well about the state of Finland today.
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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