Wedding habits reveal that Norway has become an ever more diverse culture, and therefore you can find clear connections between wedding and migration. Each year, more marriages are contracted between one individual without an immigrant back ground and an immigrant, than between two individuals with immigrant backgrounds. Additionally there are distinctions among various sets of immigrants.

Compiled by: Gunnlaug Daugstad

In this paper, we are going to take a close glance at marriage habits one of the immigrant populace in Norway. That is a subject that includes a great focus in todays debate. The conversations are attached to the ideas for a brand new legislation on immigration (NOU 2004), the capacity to help partners economically, also to placing a specific age limitation on couples whenever getting into marriages across boundaries (so named trans-national marriages). The talks are actualised by the proven fact that plenty of immigrants marry people with the exact same back ground they marry (Storhaug 2003, HRS 2005 and 2006) as themselves, and that one of the partners is non-resident when.