Multi-level Administration in Time of Crisis : A Case Study of The Norwegian Directorate for Immigration and the so called “asylum crisis of 2015"

2019

Master's thesis Public Policy and Management ME502 - University of Agder 2019 In Autumn 2015, a record high number of 31,145 asylum seekers entered Norway. The overflow of refugees caused an organizational challenge for the national agency, the Norwegian Directorate for immigration (UDI). The challenge was expected for an organization like the UDI which operates within a Multi-level administration system (MLA), both under Norwegian state and within the European. The overflow of the refugees is consideredas a crisis, calling for cooperation and coordination of the affected and relevant entities and units both within and across organizations. Beside revealing the UDI’s inability and lack of r…