Does the Government have any positive attitude towards the migrate children?
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Answer:4 Migration to Iceland: Social and legal history
Migration has a long history in Iceland. The island was discovered by Irish monks and
anchorites, known in Iceland as papar who came to Iceland around AD 800. The papar
left the island as soon as the settlers landed on Iceland before AD 1000. During this time
the Althingi was founded making the oldest parliment of the world . Christianity was
established in Iceland around the same time and was influenced by the Norwegian king
of this period, Olaf Tryggvason. During this time Iceland was independent but due to
internal conflicts the country was subjugated to Norway in the early thirteenth century
until the fourteenth century when Denmark became the ruler of Iceland until the 19th
Century (Jóhannesson, 2013; Karlsson, 2000).
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In 1918 Iceland and Danish representatives reached an agreement in which was
stated that Iceland was a free and sovereign state. However, the Danish king remained
the head of state and authorities in Copenhagen kept handling Iceland’s foreign affairs.
On 17 of June of 1944 and after a long struggle against Danish rule, Iceland was
declared an independent republic. Furthermore, during this time Icelandic society
experienced a great deal of change and underwent an economic expansion that led to
an increase of internal migration as well as external migration (Jóhannesson, 2013).
There is a long history of migrants moving to Iceland from numerous countries
and for different reasons. Moreover, one of the main documented reason for migration
to Iceland throughout history has been the search for job opportunities. For instance,
from the early 19th century until 1914, French men came to Iceland to fish around the
coasts. Furhtermore, during the second world war, British occupation of Iceland began
and lasted throughout World War II when many soldiers were stationed in Iceland.
When the British ocupation ended, American troops took over. The Americans used
Iceland as a strategic point to land their planes when travelling between America from
Europe during World War II. In 1951, the U.S. Air Force stablished an Air base in the
town of Keflavik that operated until 2006. This occupation led to an increase of job
opportunities for Icelanders who moved to the town to work.
While the internal migration in Iceland incresed a lack of labourers in the rural
areas led to the Agricultural association of Iceland to search for German workers. Many
German women came to iceland to work during different periods of time. Some of the
Germans who came to work stayed and married and established themselves in Iceland
(Eiríksson, 2008; Jóhannesson, 2013).
Icelandic economy has expanded throughout time. In recent years the economic
development of the country has continued to grow and this has led to an increased
need for various types of labor. This has resulted in the rise of foreign labor in various
sectors specially in the areas of construction, fishery and service (Félagsmálaráðuneytið,
2007).
The migrant population in Iceland has also increased throughout time. As shown
in figure 1 in 1996 the migrant population in Iceland numbered 5.357, second
generation migrants were 345. By the year 2009 the number of migrants in Iceland was
at its peak at 28.664. Even though the number of migrants declined, the second
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generation migrants and migrants born in Iceland increased gradually from year to year.
In the year 2014 the migrant population in Iceland numbered a total of 27.447, second
generation migrants numbered 3.532, migrants born in Iceland but having one parent
born abroad numbered 11.501 in total (Statistics Iceland, 2015a).
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