Integration|Integration services are being reformed to emphasize even more the immigrants’ own responsibility. MPs Jani Mäkelä (ps) and Veronika Honkasalo (left) clashed on the issue on Yelle on Thursday.
Finland the ongoing reform in the integration services created a colorful discussion In Yle’s A-studio Thursday evening.
The Ministry of Labor and Economic Affairs said on Wednesday that it had launched a project, the aim of which is to reform the integration services to meet Petteri Orpon (kok) the government’s government program. In practice, the focus of the integration work is shifted from the newcomer’s rights to the newcomer’s own responsibility.
The Left Alliance Member of Parliament and Vice President Veronika Honkasalo criticizes the idea that immigrants are basically not active.
“That’s how we easily think in society about people who are unemployed, for example, that they need to be activated more. But that activation will not succeed if those services are not of sufficient quality and they are not available,” said Honkasalo.
The ruling parties the chairman of the parliamentary group of basic Finns who participated in the discussion as a representative Jani Mäkelä said that he knows many immigrants who are well integrated in Finland and that he has talked with many people who know such immigrants.
“None of these immigrants consider such integration services necessary. They themselves have gone to work and found out about things. [He ovat] have managed their lives in Finland, when they once wanted to move here, they have come to speak the Finnish language boldly,” Mäkelä said.
Veronika Honkasalo of the Left League criticized the idea that immigrants would not be active in principle.
Honkasalo pointed out in the discussion that the skills of people who came to the country as asylum seekers, for example, are not recognized well enough in Finland.
“Among them are also highly educated people, doctors, lawyers. They rarely get a job like that. Our integration system should do a much better job of recognizing people’s skills from the start.”
Honkasalo also talked about his experiences with young asylum seekers who, according to Honkasalo, had done “everything that Finnish society expects of them”, but still felt that society did not welcome them.
“Myself, I think that if Finland offers these people asylum, sustenance and education, then shouldn’t the overriding feeling then be gratitude,” Mäkelä said.
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