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2016. 2. 14 하토브

Iraqi refugees in Finland returning home due to 'chilly weather and hostile locals'

Thousands of applications for asylum have been cancelled, officials say, with Finland chartering flights to take the refugees back to Baghdad from next week

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By James Rothwell

5:26PM GMT 12 Feb 2016

Thousands of Iraqis who arrived in Finland last year have decided to cancel their asylum applications and return home, with some saying they dislike the frosty weather and find the locals unfriendly.

More than 4,100 applications for asylum have been cancelled, officials say, with Finland chartering flights to take the refugees back to Baghdad from next week.

Though the majority say they yearn to be reunited with their families, others are simply disillusioned with the Nordic way of life, according to a local travel agent in Helsinki.

Muhiadin Hassan, who is selling up to twenty tickets to Baghdad each day, told Reuters: "Some say they don't like the food here, it's too cold or they don't feel welcome in Finland. There are many reasons."

Finland's intake of asylum seekers rose nearly tenfold last year, after applications increased from 3,600 in 2014 to 32,500 in 2015.

Finland has little experience of mass immigration

Nearly 80 per cent of the returnees are Iraqis, while just 22 of the 877 Syrians who have sought asylum in Finland have asked to return home.

Tobias van Treeckk, a program officer for the International Organisation for Migration, said Finnish bureaucracy had given some Iraqis second thoughts about staying.

"Some say the conditions in Finland and the lengthy asylum process did not meet their expectations, or what they had been told by the people they paid for their travel," he said.

While most of the returnees pay for their own flights, Finland gave financial help to more than 630 people in 2015 and a similar number is expected this year.

"The number of returnees is increasing steadily ... all asylum seekers are informed about the options for voluntary return and about the available financial assistance," Paivi Nerg, a senior official in the Finnish interior ministry, said.

Finland, along with other Nordic states, has tightened its immigration policy and now requires working-age asylum seekers to do some unpaid works.

It comes amid growing hostilities towards migrants in the country, which isfacing economic problems and has little experience of mass immigration.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/finland/12154665/iraqi-refugees-leave-finland-return-home.html