This week’s Yle News All Points North podcast explores some of the obstacles people face when they arrive in the country – a team of problem transfer experts Minna Franck told APN "big problem".
"We need to discuss structural racism and xenophobia in Finnish working life," Franck told the APN podcast. "I help highly educated people who are trying to find work in Finland, and I hear stories of their struggles, even trying to get their feet in the door."
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We also heard Philipp von dem Knesebeck, who moved to Finland in July with his wife and has documented his migration experience on the Living HEL blog. The von dem Knesebecks have faced challenges in obtaining Finnish social security codes, opening bank accounts and registering their addresses.
Based on this experience, he suggested that the Finnish immigration process should be significantly simplified and streamlined.
"Not all of these different processes are needed, because they are all from the Finnish government and are all based on the same database, so why is it so damn complicated," he asked.
Uncertainty about evacuation is growing in Afghanistan
When Finland announced on Friday its plans to stop air shipments from Afghanistan, we spoke with a correspondent in the Yle region. Maija Liuhto, who said that the situation in Kabul is very tense and uncertain.
"The feeling that Afghans on the ground have is that mostly only Westerners are being evacuated, and there have been stories of planes taking off almost completely, so the situation is quite appalling," Liuhto said.
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This week’s presentation was presented by Ronan Browne and Zena Iovino. The producer was Mark B.Odom and the audio engineer was Laura Koso.
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Source: The Nordic Page