In a move aimed at ensuring an integrated Denmark without “parallel societies” and to protect “Danishness,” the Danish government recently released a plan to rid the country in the next 12 years of areas it officially calls “ghettos.”
In Denmark, the word “ghetto” is a legal designation typically applied to a neighborhood with more than 1,000 residents, meeting at least two of the following three criteria (though additional criteria are sometimes also applied):
Political leaders refer to these areas as “holes in Denmark’s map,” where Danish language and values are lost to generation after generation of residents.