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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/7df434a515a94342 https://verfassungsblog.de/they-not-like-us/ They Not Like Us - Why the Danish ‘Ghetto Law’ violates EU law Steininger, Silvia eng 2025-03-10 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Denmark Ethnic Discrimination forced eviction Immigration Race and Ethnic Equality Directive Racial Discrimination Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On 13 February 2025, AG Ćapeta delivered a milestone opinion on racial discrimination and migration in the EU when she found the Danish ‘Ghetto Law’ in violation of the Race and Ethnic Equality Directive. She determined that the differentiation between “Western” and “non-Western” immigrants and their descendants in the Danish legislation creates a perceived “ethnic ‘Other’” vis-à-vis the majority population that falls under the anti-discrimination ground of “ethnic origin”. I will explain how her opinion challenges this form of legalized ‘othering’ in migration law, based on the underlying sentiment of ‘us’ vs. ‘them’, as it goes against Art. 2 TEU and the vision of a democratic, tolerant, and anti-racist European society.