It was an eye-popping - and not just an eye-catching - statistic. In the hours and days after the terrorist attack in Norway on July 22, when the world's eyes trained towards the usual suspects, it emerged that Pakistanis (absolved of the blame, much to their relief) are the third largest number of immigrants in Norway after Poles and Swedes. Further inquiries revealed that it was not just a FACTOID (a questionable or spurious statement presented without veracity) but an accurate, verifiable FACT. A thinly-populated country of 5 million people, Norway, according to its government statistics, has more than 600,000 (or about 12%) immigrants as of 2011. Poles top the list of immigrants at 60,000, followed by Swedes at 34,000. But followed by Pakistanis at 32,000? How could that be?
Why Pakistanis have the wood on Norway becomes a little clearer when you examine the next two immigrant nationalities on the list - Iraq and Somalia (27,000 each). Iran and Turkey also figure at 9th and 10th (16,000) each. In contrast, there are only 10,000 Indians in Norway, less than a third of the Pakistani immigrant population. In fact, there are more Sri Lankans and Afghans (14,000 each) than Indians. So are Indians reluctant to migrate to Norway? If it is not cold enough or distant enough to stop Pakistanis and Lankans, why should it inhibit Indians, arguably one of the world's biggest migrant groups with a diaspora of more than 30 million worldwide? More...
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Why Pakistanis have the wood on Norway becomes a little clearer when you examine the next two immigrant nationalities on the list - Iraq and Somalia (27,000 each). Iran and Turkey also figure at 9th and 10th (16,000) each. In contrast, there are only 10,000 Indians in Norway, less than a third of the Pakistani immigrant population. In fact, there are more Sri Lankans and Afghans (14,000 each) than Indians. So are Indians reluctant to migrate to Norway? If it is not cold enough or distant enough to stop Pakistanis and Lankans, why should it inhibit Indians, arguably one of the world's biggest migrant groups with a diaspora of more than 30 million worldwide? More...
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