Campaign against hate crime and discrimination\u00a0<\/p>\n
Copenhagen Municipality and the Danish Institute for Human Rights launched a poster campaign stating: \u201cYou are a Copenhagener, no matter what you wear.\u201d A QR code on each poster links to new hotline Diskriminationslinjen<\/a>, which offers legal advice to victims and witnesses of racism and discrimination.\u00a0<\/p>\n The campaign is part of the city\u2019s three-year action plan against racism and hate crime<\/a>. The plan identifies specific groups as being particularly at risk: people who are Muslim and have a refugee background, people from African countries, and people who are Jewish or from Greenland, including both first- and second-generation migrants.\u00a0<\/p>\n The plan also includes initiatives in housing, employment, education and social services, designed to promote equal access to opportunities and support long-term migrant integration.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Integration lessons from the municipality of Tingbjerg\u00a0<\/p>\n The Copenhagen neighbourhood of Tingbjerg has seen a marked turnaround in school performance and safety. Listed as a \u201chard ghetto\u201d<\/a> – a governmental term for an area with a high proportion of residents from countries outside Europe, low employment and crime, targeted for integration measures – in 2019, the area was once associated<\/a> with crime and poor educational outcomes, and was home mainly to third-country nationals including people with refugee status. Today, Tingbjerg is considered safe, attracts families buying homes, and its local school achieves above-average results. This reflects long-term cooperation, ongoing since 2014, between residents, a reform-minded school leadership<\/a>, the municipality<\/a> and a housing company<\/a>, focusing on positive expectations, education, housing renewal<\/a> and local opportunities.\u00a0<\/p>\n New book highlights increasing social interaction between migrants and native Danes\u00a0<\/p>\n A new open-access book<\/a> presents findings from six-year research project Measuring Intense Migrant-Native Contact and Its Consequences (MNcontact)<\/a>. The 83-page study examines mixed partnerships and friendships, workplaces, schools, and children of mixed descent, showing that Danish society is becoming increasingly integrated.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Key findings shared in the publication include that in 1985, 94% of couples comprised two people of Danish descent, falling to 83% by 2020; the proportion of all 0\u201316-year-olds represented by children of mixed descent born in Denmark rose from 4.4% in 1985 to 8.2% in 2019; the likelihood of Danish adults meeting a migrant at work increased from 3.1% in 1996 to 13.3% in 2019. The book highlights sustained progress in integration through social mixing.\u00a0<\/p>\n Increased use of voluntary return programme by Syrian refugees\u00a0<\/p>\n In the first nine months of 2025, 413 Syrian residents in Denmark chose to return to Syria with financial support from the Danish state, a significant increase<\/a> from 94 the previous year. The return programme, run by municipalities and the Danish Refugee Council<\/a> since 1993, offers a one-time payment to residents who permanently give up their residence permit. Rising participation demonstrates that the programme is a success and reflects certain challenges in integration, including growing negative attitudes toward Muslim refugees. Most Syrian refugees in Denmark remain settled and view the country as home<\/a>, highlighting the importance of supportive integration policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campaign against hate crime and discrimination\u00a0 Copenhagen Municipality and the Danish Institute for Human Rights launched a poster…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[27,26,12532,42527,368,1708],"class_list":["post-84402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-inclusion","tag-integration-of-migrants","tag-migration-policy","tag-social-policy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116589586204900280","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}