Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Ulf Hedetoft is Head of Department, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagan; professor of international studies, head of the department of History, International & Social Studies at Aalborg University, and founding director of the Academy for Migration Studies in Denmark (AMID). His works include (as co-editor) The Postnational Self: Belonging and Identity (Minnesota University Press, 2002); The Global Turn: nationalist encounters with the world (Aalborg University Press, 2003); The Politics of Multiple Belonging: ethnicity and nationalism in Europe and East Asia (Ashgate, 2004); and contributions to National Identity and the Varieties of Capitalism: the Danish Experience (eds John Campbell, John A. Hall & Ove Kaj Pedersen, McGill-Queens University Press, 2006).
The dominant discourse in Denmark is nationalist, dealing with immigration in terms of cultural homogeniety....