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Wed, 17 Aug, 2016 12:06:28 AM FTimes – STT Report, Aug 17  Joutseno reception centre. File Photo Lehtikuva. The human trafficking victim help system received a record number of applications early this year, said the Finnish Immigration Service.
A total of 73 applications were submitted by the end of June and the number was 44 during the stipulated period in the previous year.
More underage victims have been guided to the help system, said the immigration service.
“Experiences of the under-aged do not differ much from those of the adult victims. There are forced crime and prostitution and workforce exploitation,” said the director of the Joutseno reception centre, Jari Kähkönen.
The Joutseno reception centre is responsible for managing the help system for human trafficking victims.
The majority of the applications early this year involved asylum seekers, said a report of the human trafficking help system.
“Growth in the number of applications correlates with the increase of the amount of asylum seekers,” Kähkönen added.
The centre approved 42 applications early this year, seven of which were lodged by underage persons. Last year the number of approved applications was 31.
Most applications of the victims of sexual abuse-related human trafficking, for instance a woman who has been forced into prostitution, were approved.
According to the immigration service statistics, especially Nigerian and West African women have been forced into prostitution, most usually in Mediterranean countries and Russia.
The Finnish language magazine Long Play on Sunday reported that the Immigration Services (Migri) turned back a number of Nigerian female victims of human trafficking and brutal violence from Finland back to Nigeria and Italy.
The majority of the women did not receive a residence permit, even though Migri admitted that they were victims of human trafficking and even if they had small children with them, said the news report.
A Long Play reporter met with two of the women in Italy, who have had to return to the streets as prostitutes.
Later, on Sunday, Interior Minister Paula Risikko asked clarification from Migri about its decisions to reject the asylum applications of the human trafficking victims.
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