Welfare Professionals Harbour Anxieties About Denmark’s Anti-Immigrant Policies – Australian Institute of International Affairs

Denmark’s social workers must walk a difficult line between providing rights and services for newcomers and upholding state legislation unfairly restricting immigration. Under the current government, further plans to alter immigration policy is poised to make the lives of many much more difficult. 

On 25 January 2023, in a phenomenal U-turn, Denmark announced a “pause” in its highly controversial plans to outsource asylum applications processing to Rwanda. Concurrently, and even though Denmark is not formally bound by the European Union’s (EU) Justice and Home Affairs legislation…

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