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Half a million foreigners live in Finland. It would be time to talk more about them than about the new arrivals.
Asylum seekers and quota refugees were a small minority of the arrivals, around nine percent. Still, Finland's discussion about immigrants revolves around asylum seekers. In many people's minds, the whole word immigrant is associated with a person who came from a crisis country in Africa or the Middle East.
MOST immigrants do not recognize themselves in the immigration debate. They are usually not included in it.
THE BIGGEST REASONS FOR FOREIGNERS to move to Finland are family, work and study. Most people move to Finland from other EU countries. The information is from the Immigration Office's statistics, which tells for what reasons those who arrived in Finland
IF the definition of a foreigner is that both parents were born outside of Finland, there are more than 500,000 foreigners in Finland.
Half a million people is a significant number. Too many people to be left on the fringes of society. And at best a great asset. However, much of their know-how remains unused in Finland.
This group of half a million people should be the subject of a big social debate. More than how many asylum seekers get a residence permit. (Last year, only 1,281 people got it.)
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