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'Completely New Challenges’?: Continuity and revision in Finnish political parties’ objectives on immigration, 1986–1991

Matti Välimäki

dc.contributor.authorMatti Välimäki
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-27T11:45:57Z
dc.date.available2022-10-27T11:45:57Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/155069
dc.description.abstract<p><b>Abstract</b> </p><p>This study analyses the discussion of four Finnish parties – Centre Party, National Coalition Party, Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP) and Finnish People’s Democratic League/Left Alliance (SKDL/VAS; Suomen kansan demokraattinen liitto/Vasemmistoliitto) – on foreign workers, refugees and asylum seekers in 1986–1991. The turn of the 1990s marked a period of substantial change in Finnish immigration policy and legislation and included the first comprehensive immigration policy papers by the parties. The study sheds light on the contemporary history of Finnish party politics and discourses on immigration and the challenges faced by mainstream right-wing and left-wing parties when dealing with immigration. The analysis of a wide range of policy papers and documents produced for parties’ internal use indicates that the changes in foreign policy, developments in national demographic and economic circumstances as well as the parties’ broad base of supporters and distinctive ideological traditions facilitate explanation of party stances. The parties’ objectives of the period represented both continuity and revision in relation to previous decades’ considerably restrictive politics. </p><p><b>Keywords</b>: Finland • political parties • refugees • asylum seekers • labour migration<br /></p>
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherDe Gruyter
dc.title'Completely New Challenges’?: Continuity and revision in Finnish political parties’ objectives on immigration, 1986–1991
dc.identifier.urlhttps://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/njmr/9/1/article-p99.xml
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi-fe2021042612865
dc.relation.volume9
dc.contributor.organizationfi=poliittinen historia|en=Contemporary History|
dc.contributor.organization-code2603201
dc.converis.publication-id39584250
dc.converis.urlhttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/Publication/39584250
dc.format.pagerange117
dc.format.pagerange99
dc.identifier.eissn1799-649X
dc.identifier.jour-issn1799-649X
dc.okm.affiliatedauthorVälimäki, Matti
dc.okm.discipline517 Valtio-oppi, hallintotiedefi_FI
dc.okm.discipline517 Political scienceen_GB
dc.okm.discipline615 Historia ja arkeologiafi_FI
dc.okm.discipline615 History and archaeologyen_GB
dc.okm.internationalcopublicationnot an international co-publication
dc.okm.internationalityInternational publication
dc.okm.typeJournal article
dc.relation.doi10.2478/njmr-2019-0003
dc.relation.ispartofjournalNordic Journal of Migration Research
dc.relation.issue1
dc.year.issued2019


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