dv.is - Worried about the increase of racism.

14. Jan 2008

There is a good reason for being very worried about growing racism in this country. "I think we are experiencing that", says Jóhann R. Benediktsson sheriff, at Keflavik airport in his conversation with DV today. Crime records where foreigners are involved have made things worse and brought up intensive discussions and hatred against them.

As asked, Johann says he is aware of the organization "Iceland for Icelanders" in Reykjanesbær, which DV has brought up. He says he takes all the negativity in the discussion of foreigners very seriously. "I think the discussion is a based on badly informed people and is very typical for that matter. It's now in our hands to face and handle this discussion and give people the right information and facts.

"Translator Supriya Sunneva"

mbl.is - Teenagers with a foreign background feel worst.

14. Jan 2008

Results from a new research among young people in Iceland, where the topic was their psychological condition, showed that foreigners are feeling a lot worse in Iceland, then the Icelandic ones. These are the results from a research the University of Akureyri acknowledged last Friday on the symposium of immigrants and the ministry of social- and insurance about the governments plan of implementation regarding foreigners in Iceland.

According to the chief of investigation, Þoroddur Bjarnason, professor in Sociology at the University of Akureyri, the young people of a foreign race, are for example more depressed and have lower self-esteem. "They are persecuted more then the others and are less likely to graduate", he says. There is no wonder why most of them don’t consider themselves Icelandic, and a quarter of them is determent in moving away for good when they grow up".

"Translator Supriya Sunneva"

dv.is - Says that foreigners are taking their jobs.

11. Jan 2008

Part of the members of IFI lined up for a photograph yesterday. "Polish people and the Italians come over here to take away all out construction work and people also come over here and takes all the work in fish, there is. Then there are the black people who don’t even work, they just comes here and get lost somewhere, this is disgusting. And then these people dare to attack us. I am putting my foot down, there will be no more, this is enough", says Kamilla Sigtryggsdottir, one of the members in "Iceland for Icelanders" in Reykjanesbær, where there has been a big conflict between Icelanders and foreigners.

In DV today there are discussions with people in the organization Iceland for Icelanders, in purpose to understand what it is that causes increscent hatred against foreigners, that reached its maximum limit when a four year old boy was killed after being hit by a car, belonging to a Polish person. There are up to 100 people in the organization IFI in Keflavik, but the organization has also spread around the country.

"Translator Supriya Sunneva"