“We spent six years working, learning the language, contributing to this country, I’m not ready to give up”: How Denmark’s Syrian refugee residency move reflects shifting policies across Europe
“We spent six years working, learning the language, contributing to this country, I’m not ready to give up”: How Denmark’s Syrian refugee residency move reflects shifting policies across Europe
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Fools, the danes. They are sending the women who would be torn to pieces by isis, back, and letting military age men stay. Europeans are naiive.
EU’s been slowing turning from a liberal democracy into a liberal bureaucracy.
> In Denmark, there are different statuses granted to people seeking protection depending on their circumstances. Individuals who are deemed to have a “well-founded fear of being persecuted”, according to the definition in the 1951 Refugee Convention, are granted status as refugees, while people who flee indiscriminate violence against civilians in their home country qualify for temporary protection.
> Until recently, Syrians with temporary protected status like Rasha were able to renew their residency permits every year. However, this started to shift when the Danish government conducted its first review of the security situation in Damascus in 2019 and then reviewed the areas surrounding Damascus at the end of last year. The reviews concluded that the situation had “improved significantly” as there were no longer the airstrikes or the on-the-ground fighting that once defined the Syrian civil war.
> According to criteria of temporary protection status, this meant that the Danish government could now revoke Syrians’ residence permits if they were from these areas, and demand they go back.
It’s perfectly rational and fine to do. Stop blowing this up into a thing that it’s not. These people were told from Day One that they were here temporarily.