Innvandrerungdom - integrasjon og marginalisering
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12199/3203Utgivelsesdato
2005Metadata
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This report seeks to penetrate the reasons why immigrant youth are more delinquent and asocial than Norwegian youth. The report is based on data from Young in Norway 2002. As in previous surveys, immigrant youth score higher on a measure of criminality. This is above all true of second-generation immigrants, and the differences are particularly large where violence is concerned. The issue is brief: Is the greater delinquency of immigrant youth due in part to weaker integration and weaker bonds to Norwegian society? All in all a varied picture is presented. It is difficult to draw any firm conclusion as to who are better integrated - Norwegians or immigrants. But the differences stand firm when other explanatory variables are introduced. Immigrant youth, and especially those in the second generation, are more delinquent than Norwegian youth. The main point and the main conclusion is that differences between Norwegians and immigrants in terms of propensity to commit serious crimes cannot be fully explained by a theory that Norwegian youth are better integrated in Norwegian society. Moreover, a difference persists between first- and second-generation immigrant youth in the sense that second-generation youth are more delinquent. This difference too is not readily explainable in terms of poor integration. On the contrary, there are a number of indications that second-generation immigrants are better integrated than their predecessors. Denne rapporten forsøker å gå nærmere inn i årsakene til at innvandrerungdom er mer kriminelle og asosiale enn norsk ungdom. Utgangspunktet er Ung i Norge 2002-data. Problemstillingen er kort: Ligger noe av årsaken til at innvandrerungdom er mer kriminelle i at de er mindre integrert og har svakere band til det norske samfunnet? Samla sett er det et variert bilde som vises fram, men hovedkonklusjonen er at forskjeller mellom norske og innvandrere når det gjelder tilbøyelighet til å begå alvorlige kriminelle handlinger, ikke fullt ut kan forklares gjennom en teori om at norsk ungdom er bedre integrert i det norske samfunnet. Studien viser også at andre generasjon unge innvandrere er mer kriminelle enn første generasjon, selv om mye tyder på at andre generasjon er bedre integrert.