PRI: Public Radio International

'Love bridge' serves as connection for Danes who can't live in their own country

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:11:00 -0500

Denmark has enacted strict immigration laws that prevent Danes who marry foreigners from living in their home country. For many, that's meant moving to nearby Sweden and often commuting back and forth every day for work.

Wied

Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:22:27 -0500

It started with massive chain immigration through marriage. Larger than a small country could handle.

So we decided among other thing, that if the sum of the paris connection to another country was larger than to Denmark, the should go and marry there. Very reasonable, and Im sure Sara knew the law before she married a Jordanian.

This has nothing whatsoever to so with 'xenophobia'.

alex tan

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:30:31 -0500

Malaysia has similar law for its female Malay. If she marries a foreigner, he will not be eligible for permanent residency.
It is to prevent the 3 million low skilled foreign workers in the country from taking up residency by marriage.

Christoph Bräutigam

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 10:33:24 -0600

Dear PRI-Team,thanks for this report and article. I live in Berlin/Germany 120 miles south of the baltic sea coast and have been several times in Danmark. But nor in danish or german mass media including public radio stations, I heard from this law. I find it a ashaming example of the contemporary populist racism which live in many european societies and affect the goverments of many EU-Members (including Germany)
Racism that also effects Mass Media, which often more work to reassure the people of theyr prejudices as to give them informations for a deeper intercultural understanding.