Norwegian Vietnamese
ethnic group
Norwegian Vietnamese or Vietnamese Norwegian refers to citizens or naturalized residents of Norway of partial and full Vietnamese descent.
When this article describes Vietnamese living in Norway, it primarily means persons with two parents born in Vietnam. Thus, statistics used in this article do not include Vietnamese-descended persons with only one parent, or no parents born in Vietnam.
History
The first waves of Vietnamese immigrants to Norway came after the Fall of Saigon, in 1975. They escaped Vietnam by boat, and were also known as the boat people. Some were picked up by Norwegian cargo ships and came to Norway after spending time in refugee camps in East Asia and Southeast Asia and were processed through interviews by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Most of these migrants came in the period from 1978 to 1985. Later immigrants have come for family reunification and economic reasons.
Demographics
On January 1, 2017, the Norwegian Statistisk Sentralbyrå reported that there were 22,658 Vietnamese people in Norway. Vietnamese Norwegians were the fourth-largest immigrant group from outside Europe after Pakistanis, Somalis and Iraqis.
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