Despite harsh anti-refugee policy and rhetoric, in the spring of 2016 undocumented migrants continue to pass west, through the “closed” Balkan route and the Hungarian border fence. Entering the country through Bulgaria and Serbia, being forced into systematic detention, suffering from poor quality of asylum process, facing structural homelessness but consequently deciding to travel onwards […]
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16.1.2018
Annastiina Kallius and Aiski RyökäsThe “Closure” of the Balkan Route and Hungary After the Summer of Migration
The Mediterranean Alarm Phone
The number +33486 517161 is a phone service provided by an activist network, which answers distress calls from migrants crossing the sea at all hours. It has saved the lives of thousands. On the day of the interview, 38-year-old social worker Marion Bayer had just finished her eight hour shift at Watch the Med Alarm […]
The Sans-Papiers – A Woman Draws the First Lessons
Where do we come from, we Sans-Papiers of Saint-Bernard? It is a question we are often asked, and a pertinent one. We didn’t immediately realise ourselves how relevant this question was. But, as soon as we tried to carry out a “site inspection”, the answer was very illuminating: we are all from former French colonies, […]
How to Talk When No One Wants to Listen?
Reflections on moments from the struggle for migrant liberation, seen through the eyes of a Polish-Spanish migrant in search of strategies for a global revolution based on love. Movement is in our blood My great-grandparents were Cossack refugees from the Ukraine. My grandparents were refugees in their own country—the Nazis knocked down their houses and […]
مناشدة من طالبي اللجوء العراقيين في فنلندا للشعب و الحكومة الفنلندية
12 اكتوبر 2015 نحن طابلي اللجوء العراقيين, نسئل الشعب والحومة الفنلندية حيمايتنا و منحنا حق اللجوء في فنلندا. العراق و بألاخص العاصمة بغداد مناطق خطرة مضطربة بأستمرار. لم نخاطر بحياتنا في رحلتنا عبر البحار و الاراضي من اجل المال او الطعام نحن جئنا هربا بحياتنا. لجئنا هنا فرارا من عدم الاستقرار و انعدام الامان و […]
Restricting Family Reunification Interferes with the Right to Family Life
A draft bill currently being considered in the Finnish parliament would dramatically restrict the right to family reunification for people who have moved here for humanitarian reasons. Parliament will decide on the bill in June 2016. Moving to Finland to join a family member can be rather difficult. Now the government is planning to make […]
Residence Permit for Studies in Finland
In this article we provide information on the residence permit for studies in Finland in a nutshell. An asylum seeker may also apply for a residence permit for studies. Keep in mind that the authorities might change their practices rapidly—before applying, you should always check for up-to-date information, for instance, on the Finnish Migration Service’s […]
What Happens To Asylum Seekers Who Get A Negative Decision?
Before July 2015, asylum seekers who did not get a residence permit, but whom Finland could not deport were given a temporary permit for a year at a time due to the postponement of deportation. These so-called B-permits gave many people a chance to study or work in Finland. If, after a year, deportation was […]
Ali’s Bag
When the statue of Saddam Hussein came down in Baghdad, a vicious brawl broke out in the TV room. Six young Sudanese had a fight with a group of Iraqis who were celebrating the fall of the dictator. It was a remark by Youssef the Sudanese that lit the spark: ‘The American troops will fuck […]
My Street
The street is depleted except for a man sitting on someone else’s step eating a sandwich kerb puddles with cloud faces quiver in suspended migration and the dull clunk of a car door closes on the musty light of a long grey day The street, which could be in Ithaca devours the hour, gathers together […]
