The government wants to remove “hopeless” rule for immigrants
Many immigrants with secondary education from their home country do have this accepted and sanctioned, but are still not entitled to secondary education in Norway….
Immigrants
Fewer immigrants without jobs
Unemployment among immigrants has fallen slightly in one year, many more people are joining the labor market. Overall there were 80,341 people without jobs in…
Four out of ten children of immigrants live in poverty
A new report shows that 36 percent of immigrants are living in poverty in Norway today, compared to 5 percent of children of Norwegian parents….
Children of immigrants are using less psychiatric care services
According to a survey result the children with immigrant parents are using less often the services from child and adolescent psychiatry (BUP than ethnic Norwegian…
The number of elderly and immigrants in Norway increases
More residents in Norway in total, more elderly, more immigrants and more people lving in urban areas. These will be the trends in population growth the…
More participants in introduction programme
In 2015, 17 900 persons participated in the introduction programme for new immigrants. This is an increase of 22 per cent from the previous year. Nearly…
Many immigrants did not visit a GP
Only 58 percent of immigrants in Norway visited their GP in 2015. Sixty-five per cent of Norwegian-born children of immigrants had been there at least…
About 15 per cent in employment are immigrants
Nearly 380 000 immigrants were employed in the 4th quarter of 2015. This group constituted 14.7 per cent of the total number of employed persons in…
Immigrants earn significantly less than Norwegians
There is an increasingly large wage gap between immigrants and Norwegians, and the wage gap increases the longer immigrants have lived in Norway. Immigrants find…
Listhaug will have internship for immigrants
The government will do work experience to a part of the introduction program for new immigrants, says Immigration and Inclusion Minister Sylvi Listhaug (FRP). – It…
The majority of children at crisis centers are the children of immigrants
Nearly six out of ten, 59 percent, of all children who have had to seek emergency help at a children’s shelter are the children of…
Competence Center for Immigrants – Where to find available jobs ?
Research shows that as much as 60 % of all available jobs are never advertised through the regular channels. This number may be a bit…
Almost all immigrants pass Norwegian test
Nearly all the immigrants who took the Norwegian test in the introductory program last year, passed the test, according to figures P4 news received from…
Immigrants struggling to get permanent positions in academia
Despite the fact that they are more ambitious, immigrants with a master’s degree find it hard to advance in academia. Prejudices and hidden power relationships…
Women in majority in Norwegian language and civic studies
A total of 39 500 participants were registered in Norwegian language and civic studies for adult immigrants in 2014, which is 800 more than the previous…
700,000 immigrants in Norway
At the end of last year, there were nearly 700,000 immigrants and 150,000 Norwegian-born to immigrant parents registered as resident in Norway. This corresponds to…
Several hundred are requested to submit DNA sample after the rape in Lillestrøm city
Police have called in hundreds of people from immigrant backgrounds to submit voluntary DNA samples in the investigation of a brutal rape in Lillestrøm last…
22.5 percent of sexual offenders were immigrants
Just under one in four of the convicted sex offenders in 2015 had an immigrant background, according to a survey made by the TV channel…
Strongest increase in unemployment among EU immigrants
The registered unemployment among immigrants increased from 6.9 per cent in November 2014 to 7.0 per cent in November 2015, while the unemployment rate went…
