This essay, on the lessons of Denmark’s refugee policy, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 18 April 2021, under the headline “By demonising asylum seekers, Denmark reflects a panic in social democracy”. What do you call a government so hostile to refugees that it wants to send them back to a country that tortures and “disappears” its critics on a mass scale? Reactionary? Monstrous? In Denmark, they call it social democratic. Denmark is the first European nation to insist […]

Categories: International, Race & Immigration • Tags: danish peoples party, denmark, immigration, immigration policy, mette frederiksen, refugees, social democracy, syrian refugees, working class