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    Once sidelined, Norway’s migrant minorities earn a voice in parliament

    Oct 06, 2021 5 minutes
    Khadim Hussein poses in what he says is Oslo’s first Pakistani dessert shop. The Lahore native arrived in Norway at the age of 14 to live with his brother. “Things have changed,” says Mr. Hussain. “Some years ago ethnic Norwegians would look at you … with curiosity. Today we are just like any other character in these streets.”

    Marian Hussein started her first day at the Norwegian parliament rushing to overcome technical glitches before plunging into politics. “I am out of my comfort zone but I am looking forward to this,” says Ms. Hussein, smiling during a Zoom call.

    Her journey into the vanilla brick parliament building in the heart of Oslo is the outcome of a colorful upbringing. It started in Somalia, where her father trained as an engineer, and included time in the Saudi city of Jedda before arriving in the forest-fringed rural Oslo borough of Stovner at the age of 10. As the first ethnic Somali woman in parliament, she hopes to change the conversations on race, religion, and migration, and push policies that reduce inequality.

    “I have always been a minority and that gives you perspective in life on how we treat people who look

    “We see different things”“If she could do it I can do it”

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