Denmark’s ‘zero refugee’ policy drives down asylum admissions to record low https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/09/denmarks-zero-refugee-policy-drives-down-asylum-admissions/ Denmark’s strict immigration policies resulted in the granting of 860 asylum requests last year, the lowest number except 2020, when Covid-19 lockdowns halted new arrivals…The figures from Denmark come as the European Union is preparing plans on how they will implement overhauled rules for asylum seekers to be operational by mid-2026.
Denmark has already managed to negotiate an agreement to keep it outside the EU’s common asylum policy, and Copenhagen has over the years implemented a range of initiatives to discourage migrants…
In 2018, the country introduced the so-called “anti-ghetto law” that aimed to reduce the number of “non-Western” residents in certain housing areas to less than 30 per cent by 2030. The laws, which were updated in 2021, gave municipalities the right to set up “prevention areas” where they can refuse to rent to those who are not originally from Denmark, the EU or EEA or Switzerland.
I don’t mind off topic posts, but as a courtesy to board users, maybe include a quick summary why this is of interest and label it as off topic. We all have news feeds. Blasting the board with low effort posts makes it less enjoyable for everyone.
Not off topic. Immigration (particularly in welfare states) can have large economic effects. Immigration affects national elections (and hence public policies) as we have seen recently in the US and will probably see this weekend in Germany.
Because of immigration problems Sweden is currently embarked upon “remigration” policies.
…the following remigration policies:
1. The Swedish state will pay migrants (including people with Swedish citizenship) some $34,000 to return to their homelands. 2. The Swedish state is going to tighten citizenship laws by imposing language, cultural, and longer residency requirements. 3. The Swedes are going to tighten their refugee policies to “the strictest in Europe”. 4. The Swedes plan to let more migrant visas expire each year than they approve. Causing a natural decline in non-permanent resident migrants. 5. The Sweden Democrats are pushing through with a media blitz policy to inform migrant communities about the remigration opportunities. 6. The Swedish state is going to make it law that all public workers, including teachers, doctors, and other state employees, must report any interaction with an illegal immigrant.
The US War on Terror drove millions of people from the Middle East to Europe. These folks, unlike immigrants that came to obtain jobs, have zero interest in melding into the culture of the country they now reside.
Denmark has toughen their law regarding refugees. Perhaps ethnic Danish taxpayers are resentful of refugees that do not look for work and remain on the dole?
These refugees feel imposed upon by the Danish government. And now the Danish government wishes to return some refugees back to their country of origin.
They were not happy with him, Danish immigration authorities told Odai al-Zoubi, when he met with them for what turned out to be the last time, earlier this year.
The latest of their problems was that he was a writer. It was not a real job, they implied, and he needed to get one if he wanted to stay in the country.
To settle in Denmark with his Danish wife, Zoubi had already had to pay down a large sum, learn the Danish language and meet a host of requirements regarding how and where he lived.
But the goalposts for residency kept moving and, as a Syrian, he never felt welcomed in Denmark anyway, let alone after the country recently introduced a series of new laws focused on ethnic minorities. So he gave up and moved to Sweden.
Denmark’s “ghettos,” the name given to low-income areas that host much of the country’s minority population, have become the focus of harsh new laws that apply exclusively to disadvantaged residents of the areas.
Under the new legislation, children are obliged to attend day-care centres to learn about “Danish values,” residents can receive lower welfare benefits than elsewhere, and punishments for crimes in the area could potentially be doubled.
Europe (and many other places*) are between a rock and a hard place. They aren’t producing enough children, so then NEED immigration if they want to survive (not to mention perhaps thrive) at reasonable size over the next 5 or 10 generations. So they need immigration, but they need the kind of immigrants that will meld well into the population over a generation or two, AND that will contribute meaningfully to society (and to the economy). I’m not sure if they can do that. We shall see.
* Japan has a similar problem, and they are already seeing declining population. But Japan due to the race issue has almost no chance at any meaningful level of immigration. So they will either start having more kids quickly or they will slowly fade away.