Attraction of the Nordic Countries in International Migration

Abstrakti

The aim of this article is to give an overview of the international migration fl ows in the Nordic countries in the beginning of the 21st century. The analysis is conducted by country level and in some cases more detailed in regional and city-regional level based on the population statistics in the Nordic countries. The analysis reports the attractive immigration regions in the Nordic countries showing the differences between them. Special analysis is done for the EU-enlargement impacts in immigration flows i.e. have EU-10 countries started to be more often immigration origin countries towards Nordic countries.

This article is based on an international project in which it was studied Nordic immigration to better understand population development among the immigrants and the effects on population development in differing regions in the Nordic countries in the period of 2000–2004 (see Edvardsson et al. 2007).