It was suggested that a monitoring system should be developed to follow-up employers who do not employ immigrants. Monitoring should also be done to follow up the careers of immigrants. Even as victims of a crime, immigrants are often treated as suspects. Immigrants have often bad experiences of police practice, mainly due to the lack of information on residence permits and because of local police practice. One suggestion of the workshop was to support research activities within the police force to enable monitoring of discrimination in police practice.
Immigrants come in contact with a complex bureaucratic system.
Further, a different language base and lack of information make the system difficult to penetrate. The possibilities for adopting positive discrimination in the Finnish society regarding immigrants was widely discussed. Through positive discrimination first generation immigrants might find it easier to enter the vocational training system and working life. Immigrants should be involved in working life more actively, especially within the public sector. This workshop was worried about the negative news in the media considering minority groups and African countries.