Motives and consequences of Denmark’s new externalisation law
In a new special issue PhD fellow at DIIS, Ahlam Chemlali, and co-authors Martin Lemberg and Zachery Whyte, analyse the Danish Social Democratic government´s L226, the externalisation law, which despite massive critique from civil society was quickly proposed and passed in the spring of 2021.
According to the authors, the Danish proposal suggests a move towards letting the desire for externalisation guide foreign policy. In this sense, even a ‘failed’ policy may be politically ‘successful’, where such success is measured not as sustainable international solutions to displacement that respect human rights, but in terms of attracting domestic anti-immigration votes.
The special issue on externalisation policies was published in Forced Migration Review, Oxford University.