The Finnish Police is expected to control if the foreigners who stay in Finland have the necessary documents and residence permits. This task is mandated by the Finnish law. The immigration controls by the police are mainly done by stopping people and conducting identity checks by asking them to provide personal identification and when necessary […]
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15.1.2018
Markus Himanen & Kati PietarinenIs Police Guilty of Ethnic Profiling when Controlling Immigration?
My Story
Last year I was 27 years old, working as a journalist in my hometown Baghdad, where I had studied business administration. I wrote an article about the war, and how the militias were sending young, untrained guys to fight against ISIS who were well equipped with modern weapons. I wrote that it was like sending […]
LGBT-café
LGBT-café is a non-commercial event organised once a month in Helsinki, for sexual and gender minorities. The café is targeted at asylum seekers, refugees and migrants living in the capital region. At the LGBT-café events, newcomers and locals can meet and get to know one another in a safe environment. The café’s goal is to […]
Experiences from the Law Clinic in Rome
Seven years ago, lawyers and law students in Rome started a Law Clinic to support migrants. Three activists who visited Helsinki in April, lawyer and scholar Enrica Rigo, lawyer Jacopo Di Giovanni, and Phd-student Carlo Caprioglio, discussed detention centre protests, the situation of migrant movements in Italy, and the meaning of recently founded hotspots. The […]
Culturally Diverse Finland Has A History
Because migrants and minorities in Finland do not have power, we are taught to believe we are rootless and have no historicity. It is not true: migrant and anti-racism activism in Finland was already very alive in the 1980s. Enrique Tessieri “Our dominant classes have made sure that the worker has no history, doesn’t have […]
قارب الخلاص
قارب الخلاص في جوربي العتيق ذو الرائحة الكريهة وضعت كل المستمسكات الشخصية و بعض ما تبقى من أوراق العملة النقدية في لفافة من كيس النايلون كي لا تصل اليها مياه البحر و تتلفها كانت ليلة حالكة الظلام تلك التي أبلغنا بها المهرب أن قارب التهريب سيكون قريب من الشاطئ و علينا أن نكون حذرين لأن […]
