diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d3c3a3faea..dadc31d326 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 
    * `futhark-bench`: Add ``--skip-compilation`` flag.
 
+   * `scatter` expressions nested in `map`s are now parallelised.
+
 ### Removed
 
    * `futhark-dataset`: Removed `--binary-no-header` and
diff --git a/src/Futhark/Pass/ExtractKernels.hs b/src/Futhark/Pass/ExtractKernels.hs
index febfea2f8b..5b10c837e3 100644
--- a/src/Futhark/Pass/ExtractKernels.hs
+++ b/src/Futhark/Pass/ExtractKernels.hs
@@ -991,6 +991,20 @@ maybeDistributeStm bnd@(Let _ aux (BasicOp (Reshape reshape _))) acc =
                    map DimNew (newDims reshape)
     addKernel $ oneStm $ Let outerpat aux $ BasicOp $ Reshape reshape' arr
 
+maybeDistributeStm stm@(Let _ aux (BasicOp (Concat d _ _ w))) acc =
+  distributeSingleStm acc stm >>= \case
+    Just (kernels, _, nest, acc')
+      | (outer, _) <- nest,
+        x:xs <- map snd $ loopNestingParamsAndArrs outer ->
+        localScope (typeEnvFromKernelAcc acc') $ do
+          let d' = d + length (snd nest) + 1
+              outerpat = loopNestingPattern $ fst nest
+          addKernels kernels
+          addKernel $ oneStm $ Let outerpat aux $ BasicOp $ Concat d' x xs w
+          return acc'
+    _ ->
+      addStmToKernel stm acc
+
 maybeDistributeStm bnd acc =
   addStmToKernel bnd acc
 
diff --git a/tests/distribution/segconcat0.fut b/tests/distribution/segconcat0.fut
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..533c509136
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/distribution/segconcat0.fut
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+-- Nested concatenation just becomes a concatenation along an inner dimension.
+-- ==
+-- input { [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]] [[3,2,1],[6,5,4]] }
+-- output { [[1,2,3,3,2,1],
+--           [4,5,6,6,5,4]] }
+-- structure distributed { Kernel 0 }
+
+let main (xss: [][]i32) (yss: [][]i32) =
+  map (\(xs, ys) -> concat xs ys) (zip xss yss)
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diff --git a/tests/distribution/segconcat1.fut b/tests/distribution/segconcat1.fut
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9302dcfeda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/distribution/segconcat1.fut
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+-- Nested concatenation with more arrays.
+-- ==
+-- input { [[1,2],[3,4],[5,6]] [[1,2],[3,4],[5,6]] [[1,2],[3,4],[5,6]] }
+-- output { [[1,2,1,2,1,2], [3,4,3,4,3,4], [5,6,5,6,5,6]] }
+-- structure distributed { Kernel 0 }
+
+let main (xss: [][]i32) (yss: [][]i32) (zss: [][]i32) =
+  map (\(xs, ys, zs) -> concat xs ys zs) (zip xss yss zss)
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