Immigrant Parents Send Teens Away for De-Westernization

Officials say they are learning of an increasing number of cases in which immigrant parents in Finland are forcibly sending teens back to their home countries to de-westernize them.

The Finnish Red Cross as well as social welfare offices say that every year dozens of parents who believe their children are becoming too westernized send their offspring back to African, Asian and Middle Eastern states.

Leena-Kaisa Åberg, head of the refugee and immigration section at the Finnish Red Cross, says school teachers rarely question the sudden absence of students with immigrant backgrounds.

“In some cases sports coaches are the ones who look into these disappearances,” says Åberg.

Authorities say these types of matters often fall beyond their jurisdiction, as parents are responsible for minors.

Janne Kanerva, a legislative counsellor at the Justice Ministry, says it’s not a crime if both parents decide to send their child abroad.

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Comment: I very much agree with Janne Kanerva as the teens belongs to a rich mixed diversity hence needs to learn both cultural ways.

Onyango Okeyo.

Review:Race and Class

Racism remains one of the main features of the advanced capitalist societies. It is institutionalised in the sytematic discrimination which black people experience in jobs, housing and the education system, and the harassment they suffer at the hands of police and immigration authorities.

Modern racism, with its rhetoric of cultural difference and usually tacit appeal to older notions of natural inferiority, in any case arises in the conditions of industrial capitalism. Capitalism in its fully developed form rests on the exploitation of free wage labour.

Fighting racism, however, depends on understanding its causes. This is essential if the hold of racism on white workers is to be broken. Racism, as we have seen appeals to white workers because it offers an imaginary solution to the real problems like poverty, unemplyoment,exploitation,they confront.

Therefore, the direct struggle against racism must be linked to agitation around social and economic issues which shows that racism isn´t the solution, that the class struggle uniting workers of all colours and ethnic backgrounds, offers the only effective way of improving their lives.

Socialist Revolution

Revolutionary Socialist are committed to building a non-racial party of black and white workers which understands that racism can only be finally removed through the overthrow of capitalist system.

To be continued……..

Onyango Okeyo.