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From Our Own Correspondent

Denmark’s deportation dilemma

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The government of Mette Frederiksen in Copenhagen is getting tough on migration - and has even started to rescind the residency status of some asylum-seekers where it deems the situation in their home countries 'safe' or at least improved. Adrienne Murray reflects on the signs of resistance she's seen on the streets, and the questions these moves raise about Danish policy.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts

0:05.3

Today, a moment of promise for beleaguered Libya, or is it just another last chance until

0:11.5

the next one?

0:12.9

In Argentina, even the shared ritual of the national drink has been affected by the pandemic.

0:19.4

We hear the lament of two hunters looking for bushmeat in Liberia's forests, and consult

0:25.5

a new guide to France, its roads and restaurants, according to Bond, James Bond.

0:32.5

First to Denmark, which, like many EU member states, has been tightening its rules on migration

0:37.6

and asylum in recent years.

0:40.0

Just like Germany and other countries in Scandinavia, it's still working through the consequences

0:45.4

of taking in many refugees from the wars in Syria and Afghanistan.

0:50.8

That's their long-term future, to stay in Denmark, or try to go home and rebuild when or

0:55.8

if things get safer.

0:57.9

Can the Danish welfare state take the strain of integrating so many outsiders?

1:03.3

And what do Danish voters want done?

1:05.8

The centre-left government of Prime Minister Metabthreddixson has been unapologetic about

1:11.1

its intention to rescind asylum seekers' residency, if it feels conditions have improved

1:16.5

enough in their home countries.

1:18.7

In Copenhagen, Adrian Murray has been seeing growing signs of a much tougher policy line.

1:25.8

Syria and Erick Sikker, Syria is not safe, declared a yellow banner draped in front of the Danish

1:32.4

Parliament, Christian Boer.

1:34.6

Stop playing with our lives, and our children's future, read another.

1:39.4

Members of Denmark's Syrian community have been staging a daily protest for over a month,

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