Shirlene Green Newball talks with Rami Thawi, a musician who has lived in many countries from Venezuela to Syria to Finland now. What inspires him to compose music and be from many places simultaneously. Rami songs are full of power and expose the challenges and power of being from many places.
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Joseph: What being Finnish means to me (Part II)
This is part II of Joseph’s blog entry, What being Finnish means to me. Click here to see part I. By Joseph* …Later on I discovered rap music to deal with my feelings. There were just so many things wrong in this society that I saw all the Somalis and other foreigners not integrating well
Read on »Joseph: What being Finnish means to me (Part I)
By Joseph* I came to Finland at the age of three. I spoke only English and understood Spanish since my mother was a Finn who lived many years in Venezuela. We moved to a small city called Lappeenranta in eastern Finland. It is a beautiful city and the current unofficial capital of Karelia after Finland ceded
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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