Stavanger - an Intercultural City?

Ingrid Hauge Rasmussen

Special Adviser,

Diversity and Integration

Cardiff 20.06.2016

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Polen, Storbritannia, Tyrkia, India, Sverige, Tyskland, Somalia, Danmark, Russland,

USA, Iran, Litauen, Filippinene, Pakistan, Frankrike, Vietnam, Thailand, Bosnia-

Hercegovina, Kina, Irak, Etiopia, Eritrea, Nederland, Serbia/Kosovo, Indonesia,

Venezuela, Romania, Island, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Chile, Sri Lanka, Italia,

Canada, Spania, Finland, Nigeria, Latvia, Brasil, Marokko, Serbia, Bulgaria,

Australia, Ukraina, Colombia, Ghana, Estland, Syria, Aserbajdsjan, Portugal,

Tsjekkia, Slovakia, Ungarn, Irland, Malaysia, Hongkong, Egypt, Algerie, Kroatia,

Mexico, Kamerun, Libanon, Kasakhstan, Peru, Hellas, Belgia, Sør-Afrika,

Makedonia, Sudan, Tunisia, Østerrike, Sveits, Cuba, Japan, Palestina, Argentina,

Singapore, Israel, Kenya, Nepal, New Zealand, Hviterussland, Den dominikanske

republikk, Kongo, Libya, Albania, Madagaskar, Bangladesh, De forente Arabiske

Emirater, Liberia, Sør-Korea, Rwanda, Tanzania, Færøyene, Usbekistan,

Elfenbeinskysten, Macao, Sierra Leone, Moldova, Uganda, Trinidad og Tobago,

Burundi, Gambia, Bolivia, Kuwait, Ecuador, Angola, Slovenia, Kongo-Brazzaville,

Montenegro, Taiwan, Uruguay, Zambia, Jordan, Zimbabwe, Saudi-Arabia,

Grønland, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Costa Rica, Kypros, Oman, Kirgisistan, Qatar,

Turkmenistan, Armenia, Paraguay, Georgia, Guatemala, Tadsjikistan, Monaco,

Gabon, Honduras, Jamaica, Kambodsja, Mauritius, Mosambik, Nicaragua,

Surinam, Sør-Sudan, Andorra, Antigua og Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Benin,

Botswana, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Caymanøyene, Curaçao, Djibouti, Dominica, El

Salvador, Fiji, Grenada, Guyana, Kapp Verde, Laos, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali,

Mongolia, Namibia, Niger, Nord-Korea, Panama, Puerto Rico, San Marino, Senegal,

Seychellene, Togo, Tsjad, Vest-Sahara, Øst-Timor, De Nederlandske Antillene, Ny-

Caledonia

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The Capital of

Energy

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The 10 largest immigrant communities

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Intercultural Cities, ICC

■ Initiated by the European Council

■ Intercultural cities have a diverse population including people of different nationalities and origins, and with different languages or religions/beliefs.

■ Most citizens regard diversity as a resource not a problem and accept that all cultures change as they encounter each other in the public

■ Network of 99 cities

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Intercultural Cities, ICC

Intercultural integration, key features:

■ A vision of an open city

■ Addressing fears and focusing on common values

■ Fostering belonging & cultural reciprocity

■ Encouraging mixing and interaction

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Intercultural City Index

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Consistent planning

■ City Master plan 2014-2029

■ Transparency and Diversity Mission Statement

■ Strategy for Equality and Diversity

■ Action plan for Equality and Diversity

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The Expert visit

■ 80 participants, representing a various number ofstakeholders

■ Group discussions

■ Field visit

■ Direct feedback to the Mayor

■ Intercultural report

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Recommendations from ICC

■ Despite the fact that Stavanger is doing a great job ICC still think that different stakeholder works fragmentet dependent of which immigrant group they provide services to, and also to a certain extend seperated from the ethnicNorwegian population

■ Stavanger has not found a way to unite the City with a «we» culture instead of «them and us»

■ Stavanger promote itself as an international City but ICC are very clear that this is not equivalent with an intercultural City

■ Ask your inhabitans if they know their neighbours

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Impact and benefits from ICC

Building competence and raising awareness by:

■ Exchange experience with other cities throughthematic meetings

■ Access to ICC experts

■ Gather important stakeholders

■ A way of thinking (mind set) despite changing times or different financial situation

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Lunch at the Mayor’s house

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ingrid.hauge.rasmussen@stavanger.kommune.no

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