We have all been reading about the rescue operation in northern Thailand raises a question: Why so much media interest in the fate of twelve children trapped for sixteen days when between 23,000 and 28,500 of people have perished in the Mediterranean during 1993-2018 while trying to travel to Europe.
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Finland: A nation of emigrants
While some heads of state like Barack Obama speak of the United States as a nation of immigrants, Finland has historically been a nation of emigrants. How does being a nation of emigrants differ from being a nation of immigrants? There is a big difference and reveals in part why some Finns are so hostile
Read on »The answer to our prejudices and racism in Finland lie in our emigrants
It’s clear that as Finland becomes more culturally diverse this century, it will one day make a startling discovery: we are culturally rich and diverse. Some of those historians and social scientsts that have kept us in the dark for now should reread their history over and over again until they get it right.
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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