Nicola Witcombe

Nicola Witcombe is Web Manager and Editor at nordics.info, Aarhus University. Areas of research interest include comparative legal studies between Denmark and the UK, particularly in the area of labour law and immigration. For more information about Nicola Witcombe click here.

Contributions to nordics.info

A black and white smashed window.

11 December 2020 - Anne Ilsøe

Stock photo of Helsingør, Denmark

07 July 2020 - Anders Ravn Sørensen

From the outside, it is assumed that the populations of the Nordic countries are fairly homogeneous and that there is a relatively high level of…

an old map of the danish colonies

12 March 2020 - Nicola Witcombe

Even after the abolition of slavery in 1848, conditions for workers in the plantations of the Danish West Indies were not much improved. This led to…

Picture of presenter of film about Nordics

17 December 2019 - Nicola Witcombe

Are the Nordic countries really that similar to one another? - Or different from the rest of the world? Is discussion of 'the Nordics' simply a…

Black and white photo of Copenhagen city's skyline

26 April 2019 - Nicola Witcombe

The Copenhagen Declaration 2018 is a non-binding road map for the Council of Europe with respect to the European Convention on Human Rights. It was…

Black and white photo of several women holding a banner reading "vores hjem" (our home). The photo is from a demonstration against the so called 'ghetto list', Copenhagen September 2018.

16 January 2019 - Nicola Witcombe

In Denmark, according to a law passed in December 2018, parents who live in certain designated areas (dubbed 'ghettos') have to send their children…

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