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  • The Caravan

    Unwelcome Letters

    Dec 01, 2022 4 minutes

    Nisrin Mohamad Amam’s life in Denmark has been marked by letters. One of the last ones arrived on 31 January this year. For months, rumours about a new immigration policy had been going round her neighbourhood, near the town of Ebeltoft in northern Denmark, but she had been sceptical—until the letter arrived. That day, she learnt that the Danish Immigration Service was challenging an extension of her residence permit. Amam had fled her home in Damascus with her two sons after the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011. According to the new immigration policy, the DIS’s letter stated, Damascus was now deemed safe for refugees to return to.

    “We thought Denmark was a good country, that

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