Denmark’s Supreme Court is preparing to issue a ruling on whether legislation categorizing residents as "Western" or "non-Western" can legally justify evicting families. In Copenhagen, displaced individuals from estates with a majority of "non-Western" occupants are leading the legal challenge against these measures. The anticipated verdict will decide if the state can officially continue using these demographic classifications to enforce forced residential removals.
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Can being ‘non-Western’ cost you your home in Denmark?
Denmark’s Supreme Court is set to rule on whether families can be forced from their homes under a law that divides residents into ‘Western’ and ‘non-Western’. Al Jazeera’s Nils Adler reports from Copenhagen, where evictees of majority ‘non-Western’ estates are fighting back.
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