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Denmark's 'ghetto plan' and the communities it targets

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At the end of each year, the Danish government publishes a list of what it classifies as the country's "ghettos". There are currently 28.

Areas where more than 50 percent of residents are immigrants or descendants of "non-Western countries" can be designated a "ghetto" based on the following criteria: income, percentage of those employed, levels of education and proportion of people with criminal convictions.

Denmark is currently executing its controversial national "ghetto plan" - One Denmark without Parallel Societies: No Ghettos in 2030 - introduced by the previous government in March 2018, and now passed into a set of harsh laws and a housing policy.

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