"[T]he Danish state decides whether areas are deemed ghettoes not just by their crime, unemployment or education rates, but on the proportion of residents who are deemed “non-western” – meaning recent, first-, or second-generation migrants."
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"Because their father was born in Pakistan, they too are deemed “non-western”.
This is not a story of gentrification or the hidden hand of the market, pricing people out of city centres. It is worse than that.
It is, in effect, state-directed population control."
This is not a story of gentrification or the hidden hand of the market, pricing people out of city centres. It is worse than that.
It is, in effect, state-directed population control."
"By breaking up these communities, the government hopes to confront what it calls “parallel societies”.
This phrase recurs so often in Denmark ... the fear that areas that are home to large numbers of minority and Muslim citizens risk splintering a national culture."
This phrase recurs so often in Denmark ... the fear that areas that are home to large numbers of minority and Muslim citizens risk splintering a national culture."
"The ghetto law was the invention of Denmark’s previous rightwing government.
Yet it is now being enforced by the left-leaning Social Democrat government, in an attempt to shore up support among voters it worries will otherwise be lost to the right."
Yet it is now being enforced by the left-leaning Social Democrat government, in an attempt to shore up support among voters it worries will otherwise be lost to the right."
"[L]eft-wing parties must placate the cultural anxieties of left-behind voters if they are to stave off the electoral threat from the right.
Denmark’s Social Democrat party has been praised ... as a lesson in how to achieve integration and as a model for neutralising the right."
Denmark’s Social Democrat party has been praised ... as a lesson in how to achieve integration and as a model for neutralising the right."
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