In Demark, Eviction and Demolition Remake 'Non-Western' Neighborhoods
A government program is using demolition and relocation to remake neighborhoods with “non-Western” immigrants, poverty or crime.
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A government program is using demolition and relocation to remake neighborhoods with “non-Western” immigrants, poverty or crime.
AARHUS, Denmark — After they fled Iran decades ago, Nasrin Bahrampour and her husband settled in a bright public housing apartment overlooking the university city of Aarhus, Denmark. They filled it with potted plants, family photographs and Persian carpets, and raised two children there. Now they are being forced to leave it under a government program that effectively mandates integration in certain low-income neighborhoods where many “non-Western” immigrants live. In practice, that means thousa