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




TekijätMatti Välimäki

KustantajaDe Gruyter

Julkaisuvuosi2019

JournalNordic Journal of Migration Research

Lehden akronyymiNJMR

Vuosikerta9

Numero1

Aloitussivu99

Lopetussivu117

Sivujen määrä19

ISSN1799-649X

eISSN1799-649X

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2478/njmr-2019-0003

Verkko-osoitehttps://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/njmr/9/1/article-p99.xml

Rinnakkaistallenteen osoitehttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/39584250


Tiivistelmä

Abstract 

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. 

Keywords: Finland • political parties • refugees • asylum seekers • labour migration


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