THIS STORY WAS UPDATED According to Helsingin Sanomat, Deputy Mayor for Education of Helsinki, Nasima Razmyar, believes that the best way to deal with inequality at Helsinki schools is by paying teachers a bigger salary. Ramyar has a good idea, but it does not even begin to deal with why there is so much inequality
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Facebook (Faith Mkwesha): My child “can’t breathe”
Migrant Tales insight: Dr. Faith Mkwesha’s child was was held and mistreated by security guards who handcuffed him and resting his knee on her child’s back. Apart from being a traumatic experience for her child and the mother, all of this happened because he did not have a valid metro ticket, which he thought incorrectly
Read on »Facebook Abdirahim Husu Hussein: Skini joukko, jotka terrorisoivat erityisesti lapsia ja mummoja. Missä poliisi?
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Read on »Helsinki and Kemi demonstrations by Iraqi asylum seekers considered “successful” by their organizers
Two peaceful demonstrations by Iraqi asylum seekers took place Wednesday in Helsinki and Kemi to protest a Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) assessment that countries like Iraq are safe for asylum seekers, according to the organizers.
Read on »Iraqi asylum seekers to demonstrate in Helsinki and Kemi Wednesday at 1pm
Iraqi and some Syrian asylum seekers are planning to demonstrate peacefully Wednesday in Helsinki and the northern Finnish city of Kemi against a new assessment by the Finnish Immigration Service (Mgri), which sees countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia safe enough to return asylum seekers.
Read on »Zuzeeko’s blog: Racist vandalism is costly for Helsinki city
Perpetrators of racism (racists) give all sorts of reasons in an attempt to justify or explain their twisted perception or treatment of fellow human beings who happen to look different. Sometimes economic reasons are evoked. Some in Finland argue, for instance, that migrants from Africa and elsewhere are “welfare shoppers” who move to the country
Read on »Guess Helsinki: Saleswoman gets fired for wearing headscarf to work
A Muslim woman who wore a headscarf to work on her first day was fired, reports Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s largest daily. Even if the managers of the Guess clothing store deny that the women was fired because she is a Muslim, prosecutor Jaakko Tapala is filing a charge for job discrimination. The two managers said
Read on »Child without residence permit denied medical attention in Finland
Migrant Tales recently wrote about the poor treatment a foreign couple received at an Eastern Helsinki health center that refused to treat their sick child. In a fresh case published by Lääkärilehti (Finnish Medical Journal), a three-week old baby suffering from respiratory problems was denied medial attention because the child didn’t have a residence permit. Read full story
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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