Migrapolis
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Migrapolis is a Norwegian
award winning TV programme about the everyday lives of immigrants to Norway
since 1997.
The programme's theme is multi-cultural Norway and it contains interviews with people of a different background than Norwegian. Migrapolis focuses on problems and cultural differences faced by immigrants to Norway. Its goal is to spotlight the positive and negative sides of the internationalisation of Norway. Earlier, the programme featured a multi-lingual news section with news in Vietnamese
, Somali
, Urdu
and other languages. This has since been dropped.
In 2007 Migrapolis won Gullruten (the equivalent of the American Emmy award), for best show in the category of lifestyle programs.
In 2009 Migrapolis received an award for building bridges between people in Norway. The organisation " Norske Kirkeakademier" rewarded the television show for challenging prejudices in the Norwegian society and for showing how divers the minorities in the country are.
Migrapolis is on air every Wednesday on prime time. The show rates in average over 300 000 pr episode. This represents one third of the viewing audience when the program is aired.
The editorial staff represents a variety of different cultural and religious backgrounds.
Today Migrapolis is also a weekly radio show hosted by Dang Trinh.
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
award winning TV programme about the everyday lives of immigrants to Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
since 1997.
The programme's theme is multi-cultural Norway and it contains interviews with people of a different background than Norwegian. Migrapolis focuses on problems and cultural differences faced by immigrants to Norway. Its goal is to spotlight the positive and negative sides of the internationalisation of Norway. Earlier, the programme featured a multi-lingual news section with news in Vietnamese
Vietnamese language
Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...
, Somali
Somali language
The Somali language is a member of the East Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Its nearest relatives are Afar and Oromo. Somali is the best documented of the Cushitic languages, with academic studies beginning before 1900....
, Urdu
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
and other languages. This has since been dropped.
In 2007 Migrapolis won Gullruten (the equivalent of the American Emmy award), for best show in the category of lifestyle programs.
In 2009 Migrapolis received an award for building bridges between people in Norway. The organisation " Norske Kirkeakademier" rewarded the television show for challenging prejudices in the Norwegian society and for showing how divers the minorities in the country are.
Migrapolis is on air every Wednesday on prime time. The show rates in average over 300 000 pr episode. This represents one third of the viewing audience when the program is aired.
The editorial staff represents a variety of different cultural and religious backgrounds.
Today Migrapolis is also a weekly radio show hosted by Dang Trinh.
Comments in Norwegian media
The programme has made itself obsolete because it does not understand that the average Norwegian is a multicultural person. In the same way that 'new Norwegians' no longer need to isolate themselves it is no reason why they should do this on TV. Many people feel that the programme has fallen down because no one dares question quality as long as an immigrant is involved. Norwegians are too afraid of confrontation to do this. After all, the programme contains a strong general enlightening intention. On the other hand it contains a confusing mix of professional and unprofessional hosts, its production is cheap, and it is visually boring. More or less untouched Migrapolis has been allowed to continue regardless of budget cuts, criticism, low ratings and the fact that it has been moved around on the NRK schedule so often that hardly anyone knows when it is on. As a conclusion this gives an insight to NRK's unserious treatment of the programme. It is a treatment that sends strong signals of indifference and a fear of being politically incorrect by shutting the whole thing down. (Source:Aftenposten 25 September 2003, translated from the Norwegian languageNorwegian languageNorwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
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