Danes First, Welfare Last
Denmark’s Social Democrats argue that tougher migration controls are needed to defend the welfare state. But excluding immigrants is only the first step in a wider assault on the poorest Danes.
Martin Bak Jørgensen is an associate professor at the Department of Culture and Global Studies at Aalborg University. He is coeditor of Solidarity without Borders: Gramscian Perspectives on Migration and Civil Society and coauthor of Solidarity and the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Europe.
Denmark’s Social Democrats argue that tougher migration controls are needed to defend the welfare state. But excluding immigrants is only the first step in a wider assault on the poorest Danes.