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Refugees, Integration and Preventing Polarisation
Jørgen H. Kristiansen
Vice Mayor – Kristiansand, NorwayAarhus, Denmark, May 19th 2017
THE MAYOR’S OFFICE
It’s OK to steal! (in this session)
• Good ideas
• Innovative thinking
• New lessons learned
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Steal them!!
And implement them in your
city/organization
Migration in the world. Visualized in one map
Source: http://metrocosm.com/global-immigration-map/ 3
This map shows the
estimated net immigration
(inflows minus outflows) by
origin and destination
country between 2010 and
2015.
Blue circles = positive net
migration (more inflows).
Red circles = negative net
migration (more outflows).
Each yellow dot represents
1,000 people
Asylum seekers to NorwayNorway:
• 2015: Peak year: 31.145
• 2016: 3.460 asylum seekers
• Eurostat: Biggest decline in
Europe: -89 % (Sweden -86%)
• Young men is the majority
Kristiansand:
• Kristiansand settles more
immigrants than twice the
national average
• A multicultural city:
161 different nationalitiesSource; Aftenposten, 4th of March and UDI
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Number of asylum seekers to Norway last 30 years
From welcoming to integration: Who does what?
emergency
reception centers
reception
centers
settlement
and
integration
Government / state
responsibilitiesd
Municipality
responsibilitiesd
Food
Clothing
Housing
Integration
Application process
What is integration?
• Training, qualifications, education, employment, living conditions and social
mobility
• Democratic empowerment
• Involvement in the civil society and local community
• Sense of belonging, respect and tolerance for differences and loyalty to
common values
Source: PwC on refugee situation in Kristiansand, February 2016
Partner 1:The third sector
• Buddies from the local
community
• Refugee oriented organizations:
• Refugee welcome to Agder
• The Norwegian Church
• Welcoming centers
• Sports and culture
• Football clubs
• «Fargespill»
The «Buddy system»
Partner 2: Business community
• Cooperation with companies and
businesses
• Kristiansand Chamber of Commerce
• Strategy on how to employ refugees
• One refugee in every Stormberg Store.
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Source; Fedrelandsvennen January 27th 2017
Partner 3: «Super integration centers»
• 5 new «super integration centers» in Norway
(Steinkjer, Larvik, Oslo, Bodø og Kristiansand)
• Kristiansand got the biggest one with up to
180 participants
• Career guiding
• Introduction to important topics
• The most motivated are selected for this
• Sign a contract.
• 5 partners with attendance: City of Kristiansand, Job counselors,
Career centers, UDI (Immigration office), IMDI (Integration office)
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Norwegian extremists: Not well educated, but marginalized
Report from sept. 2016:
• 137 extremists. (100 Syria-fighters)
• 64% unemployed
• 4% started at College.
(Only 1 of them had a college degree)
• 2/3 had criminal records
Norwegian extremists: Who are they?
1/2 generation
Norwegian converts
2. generation
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20%
Source: Norwegian Security Police Report september 2016
«There is a great
responsibility on each one of
us to prevent radicalization
and violent extremism»
Erna Solberg, prime minister 21. september 2013 – Westgate Shopping center, Kenya
(63 killed)
An integrated approach
• Learnt from the 90’s
• We had trouble with right wing extremism
• Treat radicalization as «regular» crime
• More like a crime phenomenon than a religious matter
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Summary
1. Extremists may come from the smallest village or the biggest cities.
• What is common is the local responsibility of the society
2. The use of «the third sector» and businesses
3. We have expectations to our new «Super Integration Centers»
4. Treat radicalization as «regular» crime. More like a crime phenomenon than a
religious matter
At the end of the day integration is about:
Employment, education, social capital, network and sense of belonging
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Kristiansand kommune
Telefon 38 07 50 00
kristiansand.kommune.no
Jørgen H. KristiansenCell: +47 92468673
THE MAYOR’S OFFICE