Submission statement: Analysis from an Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Copenhagen on Denmark’s “ghetto laws”.
What Denmark does is discriminate against non-white people, including those born and raised in Denmark and are Danish citizens, bulldozing homes in “ghetto areas” (more than 50% “non-Western”) and moving people to other parts of the country.
>Moreover, being a naturalized Danish citizen or Danish-born does not count as being Western for people of color; nonwhite, second-generation immigrants are formally considered non-Western under the program, implying a race-based criteria of belonging.
If you’re in these areas, they also enforce financial penalties if you don’t send your child to a Danish daycare from the age of one.
>Children born into “non-Western” families in state-designated ghettos must attend special programs for a minimum of 25 hours per week beginning at the age of 1, designed to immerse them in “Danish values,” including Christian holidays and Danish language education. Parents are not allowed to accompany them.
Plus, criminal penalties are higher in minority areas, which is just blatant unequal enforcement of the law. In the meantime, after bulldozing those homes, they only allow “Western” people to move into new homes in the area.
In addition, the program also wants to turn “ghettos” into “harsh penalty zones” in which crimes can be penalized twice as severely.
>Residents and other critics of the package of measures argue that the designation of “non-Western” in practice means “nonwhite” or “Muslim,” pointing out the fact that non-Europeans such as Australians and New Zealanders are excluded from the criteria, and that Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion in 2022 were permitted to move into social housing that “non-Westerners” had been forced to leave.
While “Western” ghettos don’t have the same rules applied.
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Submission statement: Analysis from an Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Copenhagen on Denmark’s “ghetto laws”.
What Denmark does is discriminate against non-white people, including those born and raised in Denmark and are Danish citizens, bulldozing homes in “ghetto areas” (more than 50% “non-Western”) and moving people to other parts of the country.
>Moreover, being a naturalized Danish citizen or Danish-born does not count as being Western for people of color; nonwhite, second-generation immigrants are formally considered non-Western under the program, implying a race-based criteria of belonging.
If you’re in these areas, they also enforce financial penalties if you don’t send your child to a Danish daycare from the age of one.
>Children born into “non-Western” families in state-designated ghettos must attend special programs for a minimum of 25 hours per week beginning at the age of 1, designed to immerse them in “Danish values,” including Christian holidays and Danish language education. Parents are not allowed to accompany them.
Plus, criminal penalties are higher in minority areas, which is just blatant unequal enforcement of the law. In the meantime, after bulldozing those homes, they only allow “Western” people to move into new homes in the area.
In addition, the program also wants to turn “ghettos” into “harsh penalty zones” in which crimes can be penalized twice as severely.
>Residents and other critics of the package of measures argue that the designation of “non-Western” in practice means “nonwhite” or “Muslim,” pointing out the fact that non-Europeans such as Australians and New Zealanders are excluded from the criteria, and that Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion in 2022 were permitted to move into social housing that “non-Westerners” had been forced to leave.
While “Western” ghettos don’t have the same rules applied.
[https://theconversation.com/denmarks-uprooting-of-settled-residents-from-ghettos-forms-part-of-aggressive-plan-to-assimilate-nonwhite-inhabitants-243424](https://theconversation.com/denmarks-uprooting-of-settled-residents-from-ghettos-forms-part-of-aggressive-plan-to-assimilate-nonwhite-inhabitants-243424)