Where do young people wish to settle down, and why? Recent data show a high level of internal migration among young adults in the Nordic region, with a striking differences in migration intensities between people in their 20s compared to people in their 30s. Exploring current trends in mobility is vital for regional integration and prosperity, planning provisions and projections. The attraction of young individuals from urban areas and university towns to non-metropolitan regions is an important source of economic growth for many regions. 

The review of young people's mobility behaviour in the early career stage in the Nordic countries highlights that migration decisions are influenced by a set of various push and pull factors, working simultaneously. It is important to understand the background of the mover, where the behavior of the mover is impacted by educational background and industrial specialisation, geographical origin, gender, income-level and civic status. 

Learning more about current migration drivers and migration aspirations of the early career cohorts in the Nordic countries will help policymakers to shape the future of Nordic labour markets and better prepare the future labour supply and demands in rural areas. This working paper present the main findings from previous studies on migration drivers and will serve as a baseline for the data collection on migration history and migration aspirations of young people in the Nordic countries. 

Between 2011 and 2016, nearly 200 000 children and young people arrived in the Nordic countries as asylum seekers, either unaccompanied or with their families. The most important platform for inclusion and integration of newly arrived children and young people is school.

We know from research that completing primary education is the single most important protective factor for a number of social problems, regardless of a family’s socioeconomic background. There are many young people in the Nordic countries today who have not completed secondary education or vocational training; their employment prospects are significantly impaired, and they are at greater risk of social exclusion.

Newly arrived children and young people must have the same opportunities as their peers to become established in the employment market in the future, to earn a steady income and play an active part in society. There is every reason, therefore, to mobilise and to study what has been learned from research and practical experience to see how we can create suitable conditions for learning and inclusion in school.

In this publication we have interviewed researchers and practitioners with extensive experience and knowledge of this field. We hope that their experiences will provide inspiration and ideas to advance the important work that is being done now and in the future.

Mellan åren 2011–2016 har närmare 200 000 barn och unga kommit som asylsökande till de nordiska länderna, ensamma eller med sin familj. Den viktigaste arenan för inkludering och integration av nyanlända barn och unga är skolan.

Vi vet genom forskning att en genomgången grundskola är den enskilt viktigaste skyddsfaktorn mot en rad framtida sociala problem, oavsett familjens socioekonomiska bakgrund. I dag står även många unga i Norden utan fullföljd gymnasie- och yrkesutbildning. För dem är utsikterna till arbete avsevärt försämrade och risken större att hamna i utanförskap.

Nyanlända barn och unga ska få samma möjligheter som sina jämnåriga kamrater till att i framtiden kunna etablera sig på arbetsmarknaden, få en stabil inkomst och aktivt kunna delta i samhällslivet. Det finns därför all anledning till kraftsamling och att ta del av kunskap från forskning och praktiska erfarenhet om hur vi kan skapa goda förutsättningar för lärande och inkludering i skolan.

I denna skrift har vi intervjuat forskare och praktiker med lång erfarenhet och kunskap på området. Vi hoppas att deras erfarenheter ger inspiration och idéer till det viktiga arbete som görs i dag och i framtiden.

This paper is one of several outputs of a project called From Migrants to Workers: Immigrants’ Role in Local Labour Markets in the Nordic Region for the 2013–2016 Nordic Working Group on Demography and Welfare (Nordregio, 2016). This paper analyses data on recent migration flows into the Nordic countries. Another working paper analysed case studies of the process of integration in selected Nordic regions (Harbo, Heleniak, & Hildestrand, 2017). The paper also provides additional detail for the chapter on migration in the State of the Nordic Region 2018 report.

I rapporten beskrivs och analyseras insatser som främjar nyanlända barns, ungas och föräldrars delaktighet och integration i det nya hemlandet.

Det övergripande syftet med rapporten är att sprida kunskap om insatser som främjar nyanlända barns, ungas och föräldrars delaktighet och integration i det nya hemlandet. Detta kunskapsunderlag kan ligga till grund för arbetet med att utveckla nya arbetssätt och bättre insatser till nyanlända barn och deras familjer.Kartläggningen omfattar insatser för:

utbildning och språkinlärning

föräldrastöd

välmående och psykisk hälsa

kulturell anpassning och identitet

Det Nationale forksningscenter for Velfærd och Socialstyrelsen i Danmark har utarbetat en typologi som består av elva element for ”lovende praksis” som ett komplement till evidensbaserade insatser. Syftet är att utveckla en gemensam begreppsapparat kring vad det goda sociala arbetet består av. I den här rapporten har Nordens välfärdscenter använt den danska typologin för att beskriva och analysera fem nordiska insatser som antas ha särskilt god sannolikhet för att skapa positiva resultat för nyanlända barn och familjer. Dessa nordiska insatser har valts ut av en nordisk expertgrupp. Därutöver presenteras tre artiklar där deltagare och yrkesverksamma berättar om sina egna upplevelser om insatserna.

This report is the third in a series of reports financed by the Nordic Social Statistical Committee (NOSOSCO), discussing future challenges to the Nordic Welfare states. Building on the assumption that there are some key common traits shared by the Nordic welfare states justifying the use of the label “Nordic welfare model”. The purpose of the report is to use comparable indicators to analyse some key challenges faced by the welfare states. Identifying and describing comparative indicators for common challenges may be suitable both for analysing the challenges and for policy making in the Nordic countries. At their best, indicators are measures that condenseinformation on relevant issues and facilitate policy making. More emphasis on the challenge coming from increased immigrationto the Nordic countries in the recent years, since this has reached the forefront ofpublic and political debate in all of the Nordic countries.

This paper examines how students from indigenous groups from the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Southeast Bangladesh who migrated to Dhaka navigate the city. It does so by investigating how students relate to discourses of modernity and urban lifestyles while not disregarding the importance of belonging to an indigenous group. This way challenging notions of being indigenous as related to a non-industrial mode of production and essentially rooted in rural areas. In addition, by revealing the ways in which these students redefine themselves as Bangladeshi, the dominant notion of a Bangladeshi as ethnic Bengali and Muslim are challenged since indigenous migrant students are neither ethnic Bengalis nor Muslims.