Editorial

A value-based debate on integration!
Irmeli Tuomarla

Selected articles

An asylum application is individually handled in the accelerated procedure
Pentti Visanen, The writer is Director-General of the Immigration Department at the Ministry of the Interior

The asylum seeker´s legal protection has to be assessed
Legal protection has to be assured in the accelerated procedure
Valtteri Nieminen, The writer is a Senior Officer in the Office of the Ombudsman for Minorities.

How can we help our children?
Eilina Gusatinsky, Editor-in-chief of the magazine Spektr

Martin Scheinin, UN Special Rapporteur:
“No exceptions to the absolute ban on torture”
Tuomo Tarvas

Erkki Toivanen, a veteran journalist:
No single model for integration exists in Europe
Irmeli Tuomarla

The Integration Act was amended at the beginning of 2006
More intensive integration
Irma Heikkilä-Paukkonen, The writer is a Senior Planning Officer in the Immigration and Work Permits Team at the Ministry of Labour

Jobs through software testing in Tampere
Required professional skills: a knowledge of one´s native language and culture
Minna Suihkonen