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‘Cultural transformation’: how Denmark faces immigration
Ulf Hedetoft
Date: 17 February 2004

In Denmark, the radical shift in recent political debate about migration and asylum is registered in language as much as in public policy. Ulf Hedetoft charts the way that a new discourse is changing the way Danes talk to each other about the strangers in their midst.

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