Denmark: Plan to limit ‘non-Western’ residents draws ire

The government has proposed further reducing the number of ‘non-Western’ residents in certain areas in a bid to eradicate what it calls ‘ghettoes’.

When Ahmad Salamoun received an eviction notice at the home he has lived in for more than 30 years, in Helsingør, painful memories flooded back to him. Salamoun arrived in the Danish city, known as the setting to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in the eighties, having fled the civil war in Lebanon – where he had lived in a camp as a Palestinian refugee. “It’s the same feeling I have now,” he told Al Jazeera.