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Denmark: Asylum and immigration (2)

01 January 1991

Denmark: Asylum and immigration
artdoc April=1995

Change in refugee employment status

The Home Office has announced a plan to allow Bosnian refugees
to apply for jobs which have been vacant for three months. And
Bosnian refugees with temporary Danish residence permits are to
be invited to take part in a form of job training scheme for up
to six months at a time in order to maintain their professional
skills. The snag is that the work will be unpaid (Jyllands-Posten
8,6,19.7.94).
Danish Refugee Help have been contacted by companies
experiencing a shortage of labour in the west Jutland district
of Videbaek and looking for refugees to work in the furniture,
electronics and food manufacturing industries (Jyllands-Posten
28.7.94).

Kurds applications rejected

Eighty Kurds from northern Iraq are to be sent home after the UN
declared the area around their former home a secure zone
(Jyllands-Posten 8.6.94).

Suicides up

There have been almost 100 suicide attempts of refugees over the
last year. Of these attempts, two succeeded. A psychiatrist for
the Danish Red Cross, Ebbe Munk-Anderson believes that even more
problems, including restlessness, lack of concentration and
stress often leading to heart and muscular pain, will be reported
over the next year (Jyllands-Posten 27.7.94).

IRR European Race Audit, Bulletin no 10, September 1994. Contact:
Liz Fekete, Institute of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke Street, London
WC1X 9HS. Tel: 0171 837 0041