It is not given how statistics concerning marriage patterns among the immigrant population are to be interpreted. Nor is there agreement on what these statistics mean for the development of the marriage patterns of immigrants – or for their integration into Norwegian society.
While the Human Rights Service, with the support of figures from Statistics Norway (SSB), warns against the proportion who pick up spouses in the country of origin increasing from 1st to 2nd generation immigrants, the organization is criticized by others – including Statistics Norway itself – for misinterpreting the figures.
The background for this disagreement is the report "Immigration through Marriage", published by the Human Rights Service (HRS) on 17 May this year.
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The report received a lot of media attention in the time after the national day. Perhaps not so strange, because according to HRS, this was "the broadest statistical documentation ever in Norway on this form of immigration to Norway".
The main statistics in the report are based on a payment order. . .
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