Ghettos in Denmark
Despite the country's long-held ideals of social equity and cradle-to-grave welfare, Denmark is increasingly becoming a socioeconomically polarized society. While the upwardly mobile and well-to-do are settling in comfortable residential neighbourhoods or privately rented apartments, the socially marginalized are stranded in ghettos with high concentrations of immigrants.
The trend was outlined in a new report by the Economic Council of the Labour Movement (AE), which was aimed at mapping the emergence of ghettos in Denmark. In 1982, 1.9 percent of the Danish population resided in what could accurately be termed "social ghettos." By 2002, that figure had swelled to 4.8 percent, comprising more than one out of four public housing complexes.
Some 250,000 Danes currently live in social ghettos, more than 30 percent of whom are classified as socially disadvantaged Copenhagen Post May 14 2004 9:41AM GMT [Janice Kimball's Radio Weblog]
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