Ni som bor i Finland hur upplever ni invandringen?

En nu 30-årig man har i Åbo hovrätt dömts till fyra års fängelse för grova sexuella brott i ett barnäktenskap.

Mannen hade för sju år sedan i Irak gift sig med en då 13-årig flicka och hämtat henne till Finland. Han var då 23 år gammal.

Mannen dömdes nu för grov våldtäkt, grovt sexuellt utnyttjande av barn, människohandel och misshandel.

Helsinki police suspect the involvement of minors in a fatal stabbing incident at the central railway station on Monday evening, 19 April.

Police were called to the scene at 8.30pm following a complaint about a fight between around 10 people. The incident took place on the street level of a tunnel entrance between tracks 1 and 2 at the Kaisaniemi end of the station.

The 24-year-old stabbing victim died shortly after the first officers arrived at the scene.

Youth violence in Finland came into the spotlight once again when authorities revealed a 16-year-old is suspected of fatally stabbing a man at Helsinki’s Central Railway Station on Monday.

According to police, numerous youngsters in the capital city have taken to keeping a blade on their person at all times for their own protection or self-defense. Senior Detective Jari Koski told Yle that the adolescents live in constant fear as they believe they could be violently attacked at any time and even take weapons to school.

As per a report by Helsingin Sanomat, minors are suspected to be involved in 16 cases of robbery or attempted robbery by knifepoint in the capital city this year alone. The targets of the attacks are generally in the same age group as the assailants.

I Finland påbörjades ramadan i år 12 april och avslutas 12 maj.

Under omkring 30 dagar fastar muslimer från gryning till solnedgång. Tanken är att den som deltar ska lära sig bland annat tålamod och ödmjukhet.

Lappträskbon Abdul Aki berättar att ramadan är en tid av gemenskap då familjer och bekanta träffas hos varandra för att äta och umgås.

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Akis fru, Pernilla Sjögård, säger att firandet i Finland skiljer sig mycket från hur det ser ut i Egypten, där hon bodde i 16 år.

Orsaken är att en så stor del av befolkningen i Egypten är muslimer som deltar i ramadan, medan det är betydligt färre som firar i Finland.

– Här känns det inte på samma sätt. I Egypten känner man av ramadan-känslan. Här känner vi oss lite ensamma, säger Sjögård.

MDI's population forecasts present a picture of a more international Finland, as the population growth of the whole country over the coming decades will be based entirely on the increase in the number of people born abroad.

The foreign-background population in Finland is therefore predicted to grow by half a million by 2040. Mortality rates among people with an immigrant background are low because they are younger, and the birth rate is higher than that of the native population.

According to forecasts, there will be about 900,000 people of foreign background living in Finland by 2040, up from about 400,000 in 2021.

At the same time, the elderly Finnish- and Swedish-speaking population of many municipalities will die out, and no or very few new residents will be born to replace them.

Finland had 444,031 people with foreign background living permanently in its territory at the end of 2020, according to Statistics Finland's fresh statistics on population structure. This is 8% of the total population.

Of these, 367,417 are first generation people of foreign origin, that is, born abroad. Another 76,614 people of foreign origin are already second generation, that is, they were born in Finland.

The clearly largest group of people of foreign origin are those whose country of origin was Russia or the former Soviet Union. At the end of 2020, there were 90,801, which represents almost a fifth of the total number of people of foreign origin.