SSB: High proportion of overqualified immigrants working in Norway
A total of 73,000 immigrants with higher education worked in occupations with lower education requirements in 2021. The proportion of overqualified immigrants was 40% in…
A total of 73,000 immigrants with higher education worked in occupations with lower education requirements in 2021. The proportion of overqualified immigrants was 40% in…
The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (Utlendingsdirektoratet, UDI) has a mandate that includes everything from granting tourist visas to the running of asylum centers. Yet the…
A total of 115 voluntary organizations will receive a total of NOK 20 million to inform various parts of the immigrant population about the pandemic…
The younger immigrants when they arrive in Norway, the better they do in the educational process. However, the difference in education levels is still large…
A key component of becoming a Norwegian citizen is passing a ‘Citizenship Test’ on Norwegian society, history, and culture. For many immigrants, passing this not…
July 1 will possibly see the ending of Mustafa Hasan’s life in Norway. The rejection of his residence permit, in 2019, has been appealed multiple…
The proportion of immigrants who go on trips has increased considerably since 2017, figures from Statistics Norway (SSB) show. A new survey from Statistics Norway…
Immigrants in Norway are the hardest-hit demographic in the job market characterized by the pandemic. More people are unemployed now than in previous crises. Figures…
The community of Polish immigrants living in Norway is sharing insights into their lives as part of Norway Today’s two-part series on the topic. Find…
The community of Polish immigrants living in Norway is sharing insights into their lives as part of Norway Today’s two-part series on the topic. Intro:…
Immigrants have been overrepresented among those infected ever since the pandemic began. But in the last three months, the proportion has increased. Almost half, 272…
An analysis from Statistics Norway (SSB) revealed that, among Norwegian citizens who emigrated from the country, a total of 23,500 people were originally foreign nationals….
As many as 37 percent of those who have contracted the Coronavirus infection in Norway last week, before Easter are immigrants. Most are from Somalia….
There are now close to 800,000 immigrants in Norway. This corresponds to 14.7 per cent of the population, according to new figures from Statistics Norway….
Around 439,000 immigrants were employed in the fourth quarter of 2019, new figures from Statistics Norway (SSB) show. These constituted 67.1 per cent of all…
India is the country outside the EEA where most immigrants to Norway come from. ‘’People are often surprised when I say that Indians are is…
The proportion of older people in the group with the lowest income is constantly decreasing. But especially women and immigrants over the age of 60…
A total of 5.5 percent of immigrants in Norway were fully unemployed in the third quarter. This is a decrease of 0.4 percentage points from…
A new study shows that there are major differences between immigrants and Norwegian-born when it comes to the occurrence of several types of cancer. The…
Immigrants who refuse to learn Norwegian can soon lose social benefits. The Government proposes to amend the rules in the Social Services Act so that…