{"id":1534,"date":"2025-08-25T17:21:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:21:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:21:51","slug":"the-book-that-changed-norways-view-of-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/?p=1534","title":{"rendered":"The book that changed Norway\u2019s view of immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ulovlig-norsk.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"976\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ulovlig-norsk-976x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1535\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ulovlig-norsk-976x1024.png 976w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ulovlig-norsk-286x300.png 286w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ulovlig-norsk-768x806.png 768w, http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ulovlig-norsk.png 1464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 976px) 100vw, 976px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2010, a book came out in Norway that transformed the way people looked at paperless immigrants. The author, a 25-year-old Russian woman, fled North Ossetia as a child with her parents. They were never granted asylum, yet she managed to earn a university degree and eventually had to make a choice: continue living in hiding or face deportation.\u00a0Her book triggered a government crisis and a change to Norway&#8217;s immigration regulations. I spoke to the author, Maria Amelie, for Witness History on the BBC World Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BBC-WS-Witness-History-Maria-Amelie-PART-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BBC-WS-Witness-History-Maria-Amelie-PART-2.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010, a book came out in Norway that transformed the way people looked at paperless immigrants. The author, a 25-year-old Russian woman, fled North Ossetia as a child with her parents. They were never granted asylum, yet she managed to earn a university degree and eventually had to make a choice: continue living in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bevanger.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}