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.

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摘要本研究分析了四个芬兰政党-中央党，民族联盟党，芬兰社会民主党（SDP）和芬兰人民民主联盟/左联盟（SKDL / VAS；芬兰人/瓦塞米斯托利托）的讨论，难民和寻求庇护者（1986-1991年）。1990年代的转折标志着芬兰移民政策和立法经历了实质性变化的时期，其中包括双方首次发布的全面移民政策文件。该研究揭示了芬兰政党政治的当代历史和有关移民的论述，以及主流右翼和左翼政党在处理移民问题时所面临的挑战。对供缔约方内部使用的各种政策文件和文件的分析表明，外交政策的变化，国家人口和经济状况的发展以及缔约方广泛的支持者基础和独特的意识形态传统有助于对缔约方进行解释。立场。相对于前几十年的限制性政治，该时期的政党目标既是连续性又是修订。