Website: https://frelsesarmeen.no/

Mission:

The Salvation Army in Norway has the motto: Provide strength for today – and hope for tomorrow.
They describe their mission like this:
We are a Christian church, movement and organisation working in over 130 countries and with a total of 300 units across Norway.
Through welcoming and inclusive meeting places, we contribute to social engagement, belonging and faith. Our doors are open to all children, young people, adults, families and the elderly.
A central part of our work is providing services and support to people living in poverty, loneliness or addiction, those in prison, those who are neglected or victims of human trafficking, and those who are mentally ill, unemployed or migrant workers.

Country of Publication:

• Norway

Country of Publication:

• Norway

Djuve A.B., Friberg J.H., Tyldum G., Zhang H. (2015). When Poverty Meets Affluence: Migrants from Romania on the Streets of the Scandinavian Capitals. Fafo and The Rockwool Foundation 8799638401, https://fafo.no/images/pub/2015/954-innmat-trykk.pdf.

Country of Publication:

• Norway

Lingaas, C., Haugland, B. & Skjeggestad, E. (2020), Menn utsatt for tvangsarbeid i Norge : en rapport om deres erfaringer og juridiske situasjon [Men facing forced labour in Norway. A report about their experiences and juridical situation], Oslo VID Specialized University, http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2636555

Country of Publication:

• Norway

Stiftelsen Kirkens Bymisjon (2016), Utsatte migranter og prekære arbeids- og levekår i Oslo. En erfaringsrapport fra Kirkens Bymisjons arbeid med nye brukergrupper [Vulnerable migrants and precarious working and living conditions in Oslo. An experience-based report of the Church City Mission with new user groups], Oslo: Kirkens bymisjon, https://www.eurodiaconia.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Kirkens-Bymisjon-Oslo-PrekariatsRapp-2016.pdf

Country of Publication:

• Norway

Eriksen, S. S. Storstein Haug, K., Hatleskog, A. B., Ryndyk, O. & Ludwig, F. (2023), «I min Fars hus er det mange rom». Kristne migranter i møte med Den norske kirke [In my father’s house, there are many rooms. Christian migrants encountering the Church of Norway), Stavanger: VID Specialized University, https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3119507

 

Country of Publication:

• Norway

Astrid Espegren, Ivar Eimhjellen, Rune Ervik, Eugene Guribye og Tord Skogedal Lindén (2019) Samarbeid mellom offentlig, privat og frivillig sektor i gjennomføringen av introduksjonsprogrammet, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, ISBN: 978-82-8408-021-5

https://www.imdi.no/contentassets/5e9fcc66e43f4e96bb6fd6d055b6a548/samarbeid_offentlig_privat_frivillig.pdf

Country of Publication:

• Norway

Eimhjellen, Ivar; Bentsen, Henrik Litleré; Wollebæk, Dag (2020) Civil society participation among immigrants in Norway, NORCE

https://samfunnsforskning.brage.unit.no/samfunnsforskning-xmlui/handle/11250/2636124

Country of Publication:

• Norway

Sabine Wollscheid, Ragnar Alne, Ann Cecilie Bergene, Henrik Karlstrøm and Lone Wanderås Fossum (2022) Effects of Racism and Discrimination on Labor Market Integration: A Knowledge Overview, NIFU, https://www.imdi.no/contentassets/eb1bb2b1681a48b0b7b2c83590860e52/nifurapport2022-20.pdf

Project Title: Between aspiration and reality: Labour market integration of recently arrived refugees in Rogaland, Norway (MAVI)

Project Aims & Objectives:

In the autumn of 2015, Norway received a historically high number of refugees, who have been, or currently are obligated to participate in the two-year introductory programme that helps them into further education or work. There is a lot of excitement about how, for example, Syrians, a relatively new group in Norway, will do in the labour market in the years ahead. Will they repeat the success story of the Bosniers who came onthe1990s and are often lauded as “integration winners” (Dzamarija, 2016), or will the labour force participation be low due to other factors?

The introductory program

Since 2010, the national goal has been that at least 55% of participants in the introductory programme should go directly into work or education after two years in the programme, and that 70% of participants should be in work or education one year after completing the introductory programme. The recent report “Introductory programme and Norwegian training: What works – for whom?” (Djuve et al., 2017) noted that in 2016 that only Hammerfest and Ålesund met the national targets when looking at the proportion of refugees in work four years after the introduction programme (71% for Ålesund and 70% for Hammerfest). For Stavanger, the share was 52% in the same year, while for Sandnes it was 57%. Although several of the Rogaland municipalities do better than many other municipalities, it is still lower than the national goals. There is a debate about whether the introductory programme fulfill its promise. Djuve et al. (2017) shows that there are large municipal variations in how the scheme is organised and implemented, and that in some cases these affect the outcomes. They also document that there are measures in the introductory programme that have little effects. Work is currently underway at the government level to further develop the introduction programme and other education programmes for adult immigrants.

Research Question
The project’s overall research questions are formulated as follows:

Scholars/Institutions: Center for Intercultural Communication at VID Specialized University, Oleksandr Ryndyk, Kari Storstein Haug, Norma Wong, Benedicte Nessa, Zubia Willmann Robleda, Memory Jayne Tembo, Gunhild Odden

Start Date: June 3, 2019

End Date: June 01, 2022

Research Methods: Mixed methods: interviews of refugees and asylum seekers. Following refugees over time, and some as long as over 3 years. Interview of introductory advisers and NAV supervisors; observeation of meetings between these and participants in the introductory programme, observation of interaction between refugees in the introduction programme and teachers in classrooms; interview a smaller selection of representatives from civil society, preferably voluntary sector and religious sector. Collection of quantitative data such as register data to describe and analyse the relationship between residence time, place of residence, national background, labour market association and income.

Findings/Outcomes:

Nessa, B. (2023), One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Reversed Integration Processes among Refugees inNorway, Nordic Journal of Migration Reseasrch Vol. 13(3), pp.1-18.

Wong, N. (2020), A scoping review of literature on labour market integration of newly arrived refugees in Norway: Report from a systematic literature search, Stavanger, VID, https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2659638

Project Webpage: https://www.maviproject.no/

Funding Institution: University fund Stavanger

Keywords: Norway, refugees, work market integration, introducation program, Norwegian social services, civil society, Rogaland

Country of Publication:

• Norway