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Why There is Nothing ‘Exceptional’ about Finland’s Right Turn in Asylum Policy
Finland’s recent response to migrants arriving at its eastern border is neither surprising nor unprecedented. There is nothing exceptional about states mobilising significant resources to prevent access to territory and asylum by unwanted migrants – examples from other European states and beyond are plentiful. Rather, in its restrictive and punitive response to unwanted migrants, Finland is one of…
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Mobile Futures researcher Stephen Phillips has successfully defended his thesis
Mobile Futures researcher Stephen Phillips has successfully defended his thesis entitled “An examination of deterrence and access to asylum through law, rhetoric and experience” from Åbo Akademi University. Phillips has researched how countries use security rhetoric to deter asylum seekers. In Hufvudstadsbladet’s article of 23.4.2024, he points out that security does not exclude the possibility…
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Asylum Policy Transfer as a Threat to Nordic Exceptionalism
The idea that Nordic countries are exceptional in many categories, often linked especially to the apparent success of the Nordic countries in the development of welfare states and relatively high standards of living for Nordic citizens, is difficult to sustain when looking at asylum policy in these countries.