It may be strange, but in my head, I reduced people to muscles…
Vendula Fischerova has had two professions. The first one was psychology and the other one is being a masseur. She moved to Finland from The Czech Republic a li...
Tag: immigration
When you are not part of the majority, you kind of feel the need to do something about representation
I met Yesmith almost a year ago at a panel discussion organized by Helsingin työväenopisto and Miitti on the topic of employment of immigrants with higher educa...
I had to forget who I was and what I did in the Czech Republic…
I met Vendula thanks to our children attending the same school and same class. Not only they can speak Slovak together, we were also lucky enough to become frie...
How many languages you know, that many times you are a human being
This is a very popular Slovak proverb that I remembered today while I was trying to speak a little bit of Finnish after a long time. Many of us speak nowadays m...
Unemployment among immigrant women in Finland – discourses and observations
One particular article in Helsinki Sanomat unleashed lots of emotions in February 2021 within the community of immigrant women. What had happened? Receivement o...