Statistics and analysis Research reports on immigration

Research and development reports on migration and immigration commissioned by UDI and by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security.

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Losing the right to stay (2019)

Based on several personal interviews with Somali and Afghan immigrants in Norway, the report describes and analyses how the practice of withdrawal of residence permits affects the lives of the immigrants, their families and networks.
Learning About Illegals: Issues and Methods (2008)

Research with irregular migrants in Norway. Methodological and ethical challenges and emerging research agnedas. Developing Methods for Determining the Nunmber of Unauthorized Foreigners in Norway.
A sense of control: Why rejected asylum seekers move out of reception centres (2012)

A reanalysis of qualitative data from the 2011 Fafo project "No way in, no way out: A study of living conditions of irregular migrants in Norway" (Øien and Sønsterudbråten 2011).
No way in, no way out? A study of living conditions of irregular migrants in Norway, (2011)

The objective of this project is to explore different aspects of the living conditions of irregular migrants in Norway, with the main focus on the experience of living without legal residence status.
The enforced return of irregular migrants: rules and practices in Norway, France, Poland and Sweden (2009)

This report provides an overview of the rules and practices for the enforced return of third-county nationals in an irregular situation in Norway, France, Poland and Sweden.