Why Denmark's left (not the far proper) bought robust on immigration

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However on the subject of migration, Denmark has taken a dramatically completely different flip. The nation is now "a pioneer in restrictive migration insurance policies" in Europe, in line with Marie Sandberg, Director of the Centre for Superior Migration Research (AMIS) on the College of Copenhagen - each on the subject of asylum-seekers and financial migrants seeking to work in Denmark.

Much more stunning, maybe, is who's behind this drive. It is typically assumed 'far proper' politicians are gaining in power throughout Europe on the again of migration fears, however that is removed from the total image.

In Denmark – and in Spain, which is tackling the difficulty in a really completely different however no much less radical manner by pushing for extra, not much less immigration - the politicians taking the migration bull by the horns, now come from the centre left of politics.

How come? And might the remainder of Europe - together with the UK's Labour authorities - study from them?

Unsettling instances in Europe

Migration is a prime voter precedence, proper throughout Europe. We stay in actually unsettling instances. As struggle rages in Ukraine, Russia is waging hybrid warfare, equivalent to cyber assaults throughout a lot of the continent. Governments discuss spending extra on defence, whereas most European economies are spluttering. Voters fear about the price of residing and into this maelstrom of anxieties comes concern about migration.

However in Denmark, the difficulty has run deeper, and for longer.

Immigration started to develop apace following World Struggle Two, rising additional – and quickly - in latest a long time. The proportion of Danish residents who're immigrants, or who've two immigrant dad and mom, has elevated greater than fivefold since 1985, in line with the Migration Coverage Institute (MPI).

A turning level was ten years in the past, through the 2015 European migration and refugee disaster, when effectively over 1,000,000 migrants got here to Europe, principally heading to the wealthier north, to international locations like Denmark, Sweden and Germany.

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Slogans like "Danskerne Først" (Danes First) resonated with the voters. Once I interviewed supporters of the hard-right nationalist, anti-immigration, Danish Individuals's Social gathering (DPP) that yr they instructed me, "We do not see ourselves as racists however we do really feel we're shedding our nation."

Denmark got here below evident worldwide consideration for its hardline refugee stance, after it allowed the authorities to confiscate asylum seekers' jewelry and different valuables, saying this was to pay in the direction of their keep in Denmark.

The Danish immigration minister put up a photograph of herself on Fb having a cake adorned with the quantity 50 and a Danish flag to have fun passing her fiftieth modification to tighten immigration controls.

And Danish legislation has solely tightened additional since then.

Plans to detain migrants on an island

Mayors from cities exterior Copenhagen had lengthy been sounding the alarm in regards to the results of the speedy inflow of migrants.

Migrant employees and their households had tended to maneuver simply exterior the capital, to keep away from excessive residing prices. Denmark's well-known welfare system was perceived to be below pressure. Toddler faculties have been stated to be full of kids who did not converse Danish. Some unemployed migrants reportedly acquired resettlement funds that made their welfare advantages bigger than these of unemployed Danes, and authorities statistics urged immigrants have been committing extra crimes than others. Native resentment was rising, mayors warned.

At present Denmark's has grow to be one of many loudest voices in Europe calling for asylum seekers and different migrants turning up with out authorized papers to be processed exterior the continent.

The nation had first checked out detaining migrants with out papers on a Danish island that used to accommodate a centre for contagious animals. That plan was shelved.

Then Copenhagen handed a legislation in 2021 permitting asylum claims to be processed and refugees to be resettled in accomplice international locations, like Rwanda. The UK's former Conservative authorities tried a not dissimilar plan that was later annulled.

Copenhagen's Kigali plan hasn't progressed a lot both but it surely's tightened guidelines on household reunions, which not way back, was seen as a refugee's proper. It has additionally made all refugees' keep in Denmark momentary by legislation, no matter their want for cover.

However a lot of Denmark's harsh measures appeared focused as a lot at making headlines, as taking motion. The Danish authorities deliberately created a "hostile surroundings" for migrants", says Alberto Horst Neidhardt, senior analyst on the European Coverage Centre.

And Denmark has been eager for the phrase to unfold.

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It put commercials in Lebanese newspapers on the peak of the migrant disaster, for instance, warning how robust Danish migration insurance policies have been.

"The aim has been to cut back all incentives to come back to Denmark," says Susi Dennison, senior coverage fellow on the European Council on Overseas Relations.

"The Danes have gone additional than most European governments," she explains. Not simply honing in on politically delicate points like crime and entry to advantages however with specific discuss a zero asylum seekers coverage.

And but "earlier than the 2015 refugee disaster, there was a stereotype of Nordic international locations being very internationalist… and having a welcoming tradition for asylum seekers," says Ms Dennison.

Then all of the sudden the response was, "No. Our first aim is to supply responsibly for Danish folks."

The turning-point was, she argues, additionally triggered by Denmark's neighbour, Germany, permitting 1,000,000 refugees and others to remain within the nation, through the migrant disaster.

"That was a political alternative that had repercussions throughout Europe."

The place Denmark's left got here in

By 2015 the anti-migration Danish Individuals's Social gathering was the second greatest energy in Denmark's parliament. However on the identical time, the Social Democrats - below new chief Mette Frederiksen – determined to battle again, making a transparent, public break with the occasion's previous repute of openness to migration.

"My occasion ought to have listened," Frederiksen stated.

Below her management, the occasion tacked in the direction of what's typically seen because the political "far proper" when it comes to migration and made hardline DPP-associated asylum insurance policies, their very own. However additionally they doubled down on points extra historically related to the left: public providers.

Danes pay the very best tax charges in Europe throughout all family sorts. They anticipate prime notch public providers in return. Frederiksen argued that migration ranges threatened social cohesion and social welfare, with the poorest Danes shedding out probably the most.

That's how her occasion justify their robust migration guidelines.

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Frederiksen's critics see her 'rightwards swing' as a cynical ploy to get into, after which keep in, energy. She insists her occasion's convictions are honest. Regardless of the case, it labored in successful votes.

Federiksen has been Denmark's prime minister since 2019, and in final yr's election to the European Parliament, the populist nationalist Danish Individuals's Social gathering scrambled to carry on to a single seat.

A blurring of left and proper?

The political labels of outdated are blurring. It isn't simply Denmark. Throughout Europe, events of the centre - proper and left - are more and more utilizing language historically related to the "far proper" on the subject of migration to claw again, or maintain on to votes.

Sir Keir Starmer just lately got here below fireplace when, throughout a speech on immigration, he spoke of the hazard of his nation changing into 'an island of strangers'.

On the identical time in Europe, right-wing events are adopting social insurance policies historically linked to the left to broaden their enchantment.

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Within the UK, the chief of the anti-migration, opposition Reform Social gathering Nigel Farage has been below assault for beneficiant shadow finances proposals that critics say do not add up.

In France, centrist Emmanuel Macron has sounded more and more hardline on immigration lately, whereas his political nemesis the Nationwide Rally Social gathering chief Marine Le Pen has been closely mixing social welfare insurance policies into her nationalist agenda to draw extra mainstream voters.

Avoiding 'hysterical rhetoric'

However can Danish - and particularly, Danish Social Democrat - robust immigration insurance policies be deemed a hit?

The reply is determined by which standards you employ to evaluate them.

Asylum declare functions are definitely down in Denmark, in stark distinction to a lot of the remainder of Europe. The quantity, as of Might 2025, is the bottom in 40 years, in line with immigration.dk, a web based data web site for refugees in Denmark.

However Nordic Denmark is definitely not what's seen as a frontline state - like Italy - the place folks smugglers' boats continuously wash up alongside its shores.

"Frederiksen is in a beneficial geographical place," argues Europe professor, Timothy Garton Ash, from Oxford College. However he additionally praises Denmark's prime minister for addressing the issue of migration, with out adopting "hysterical rhetoric".

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However others say new laws has broken Denmark's repute for respecting worldwide humanitarian legislation and the rights of asylum-seekers. Michelle Tempo of Chatham Home says it has grow to be exhausting to guard refugees in Denmark, the place "the authorized goalposts preserve shifting."

Danish residents with a migrant background have additionally been made to really feel like outsiders, she notes.

She cites the Social Democrats' "parallel societies" legislation, which permits the state to dump or demolish condominium blocks in troubled areas the place not less than half of residents have a "non-Western" background.

The Social Democrats say the legislation is geared toward bettering integration however Ms Tempo insists it's alienating. The kids of immigrants are instructed they don't seem to be Danish or a "pure Dane," she argues.

In February this yr, a senior advisor to the EU's prime court docket described the non-Western provision of the Danish legislation as discriminatory on the idea of ethnic origin.

Whereas as soon as quite a few European leaders dismissed Denmark's Social Democrats as changing into far proper, now "the Danish place has grow to be the brand new regular - it was the top of the curve," says Alberto Horst Neidhardt.

"What's thought-about 'good' migration insurance policies today has moved to the fitting, even for centre left governments, just like the UK."

Earlier than Germany's common election this yr, then centre-left Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, pledged to tighten asylum laws, together with decreasing household reunification.

And earlier this month, Frederiksen teamed up with eight different European leaders - not together with the UK - to name for a reinterpretation of the European Conference on Human Rights, whose tight constraints, they declare, forestall them from expelling international nationals with legal information.

Contesting worldwide legal guidelines on asylum is a development Denmark is establishing at a extra European stage, says Sarah Wolff, Professor of Worldwide Research and International Politics at Leiden College.

"With the subject of migration now politicised, you more and more see supposedly liberal international locations which are signatories to worldwide conventions, like human rights legislation, coming again on these conventions as a result of the laws not matches the political agenda of the second," says Ms Wolff.

Regardless of the restrictive migrant laws, Denmark has continued to confess migrant employees by means of authorized channels. However not sufficient, contemplating the quickly getting old inhabitants, say critics like Michelle Tempo.

She predicts Denmark will face a severe labour scarcity sooner or later.

The opposite excessive: Spain's mannequin

Spain's centre-left authorities, in the meantime, is taking a really completely different highway. Its Social Democrat prime minister, Pedro Sanchez, loves stating the Spanish economic system was the quickest rising amongst wealthy nations final yr.

Its 3.2% GDP development was greater than America's, 3 times the UK's and 4 instances the EU common.

Sanchez desires to legalise almost 1,000,000 migrants, already working in Spain however presently with out authorized papers. That additional tax income plus the much-needed additional employees to plug gaps within the labour market will preserve financial development and guarantee future pension funds are lined, he says.

Spain has one of many lowest start charges within the EU. Spanish society is getting outdated, quick.

"Virtually half of our cities are vulnerable to depopulation," he stated in autumn 2024. "Now we have aged individuals who want a caregiver, firms in search of programmers, technicians and bricklayers... The important thing to migration is in managing it effectively."

Critics accuse Sanchez of encouraging unlawful migration to Spain, and query the nation's report of integrating migrants. Opinion polls present that Sanchez is taking a bet: 57% of Spaniards say there are already too many migrants within the nation, in line with public pollster 40dB.

In lower than 30 years, the variety of foreign-born inhabitants in Spain has jumped virtually 9 fold from 1.6% to 14% of the inhabitants. However to this point, migration issues have not translated into widespread help for the immigration sceptic nationalist Vox occasion.

The Sanchez authorities is organising what Ms Tempo calls a "nationwide dialogue", involving NGOs and personal enterprise. The purpose is to stability plugging labour market gaps with avoiding strains on public providers, by utilizing additional tax income from new migrant employees, to construct housing and additional lecture rooms, for instance.

Proper now the plan is aspirational. It is too early to evaluate, if profitable, or not.

So, who's bought it proper?

"Profitable" migration coverage is determined by what governments, no matter their political stripe, set as their precedence, says Ms Dennison.

In Denmark, the primary precedence is preserving the Danish social system. Italy prioritises offshoring the processing of migrants. Whereas Hungary's prime minister Victor Orban desires strict migrant limits to guard Europe's "Christian roots", he claims.

Overstaying visas is considered the commonest manner migrants enter and keep in Europe with out authorized papers.

However latest UK governments have targeted on excessive profile points like folks smugglers' boats crossing the Channel.

Ms Dennison thinks that is a tactical transfer. It is taking purpose at seen challenges, to "neutralise public anger" she says, within the hope most voters will then help providing asylum to those that want it, and permit some international employees into the UK.

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It will be exhausting for Starmer to pursue the Denmark strategy, she provides. After taking on from earlier Conservative governments, he made some extent of recommitting the UK to worldwide establishments and worldwide legislation.

So, does the 'superb' migration plan exist, that balances voter issues, financial wants and humanitarian values?

Martin Ruhs, deputy director of the Migration Coverage Centre, spends loads of time asking this query to voters throughout the UK and the remainder of Europe, and thinks the general public is usually extra subtle than their politicians.

Most favor a stability, he says: migration limits to guard themselves and their households, however as soon as they really feel that is in place, additionally they favour truthful laws to guard refugees and international employees.

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