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Jan 29, 2021 · There has been a notable drop in the number of asylum seeker applications in Norway since the height of the European refugee crisis in the mid-2010s. In 2019 , there were 4,340 refugees admitted to Norway out of the total of 37,469 immigrants.
Feb 8, 2021 · Norway had few immigrants from Syria before the refugee crisis, says Marianne Tønnessen. Tønnessen studies demography at OsloMet and is the main researcher behind the new study, which is a collaboration between Norwegian and Swedish researchers.
- Siw Ellen Jakobsen
- siw@forskning.no
Nov 9, 2023 · Introduction. In 2015 and 2016, European countries, including Norway, experienced what became known as the ‘refugee crisis’. In 2015, mostly in the second half of the year, Norway received an unprecedented 31,145 asylum claims, including 5500 from individuals crossing the Russian-Norwegian border.
Feb 2, 2017 · The breakdown of asylum seekers by country background has changed considerably over the last decade (see Figure 1). In 2015, half of the asylum seekers were from Syria or Afghanistan, compared to five per cent ten years earlier. Afghanistan had large numbers of asylum seekers even before 2015, peaking in 2009.
May 23, 2020 · 1. INTRODUCTION. This article discusses the refugee and migrant outflows that have been generated by the war in Syria. In combination, refugees’ human agency and the responses of receiving countries to the inflows of Syrian refugees have resulted in distinct patterns of refugee flows and a variety of changing legal categories of Syrian refugees and migrants.
- Marko Valenta, Jo Jakobsen, Drago Župarić-Iljić, Hariz Halilovich
- 2020
Jan 1, 2022 · Our study points to the various social, economic and structural challenges that immigrants have experienced during COVID-19 pandemic in Norway We showed how immigrants’ pre-existing vulnerabilities may be further exacerbated during crisis leading to inequity in health and welfare.
Jan 20, 2021 · The no-war-scenarios take into account that there would still be some immigration of Syrians in a situation without war, and also consider that Syrian immigrants contribute to population growth through births after arrival.
