Denmark moves to limit integrated neighborhoods

DailyKenn.com — It seems the Danish government wants to preserve the native character of its neighborhoods.

To that end, the government of Denmark is seeking to limit the number of “non-western” residents living in its neighborhoods to no more than 30 percent," according to rt.com.

The government seems to fear that neighborhoods dominated by refugees from non-Western countries will result in "parallel societies," the report says.

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High concentrations of foreigners living in residential areas increases the risk that distinct “religious and cultural parallel societies” will emerge in Denmark, Interior Minister Kaare Dybvad Bek said as he presented his government’s new initiative to combat the ghettoization of “vulnerable” areas.

While it has yet to receive the necessary backing in parliament, the measure is designed to ensure that, in ten years, non-western immigrants and their descendants will make up no more than 30 percent of the population in any given neighborhood or housing area.

If passed, the bill is expected to affect some 58 areas and more than 100,000 people, according to Denmark’s Berlingske newspaper. So far, no date has been set for the proposal to be debated in parliament.