Minister for Integration (Denmark)

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Minister for Integration
Udlændinge- og Integrationsminister (Danish)
State Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Denmark
Incumbent Kaare Dybvad since 2 May 2022
Ministry of Integration
Member of	the Folketing
Appointer	Prime Minister
Term length	4 years
Formation	27 November 2001; 22 years ago (2001-11-27)
First holder	Bertel Haarder
Website	Official website

Minister for Immigration and Integration (Danish: Udlændinge- og Integrationsminister) is a Danish ministerial office. The office was created by Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen on 27 November 2001 when he formed the Cabinet of Anders Fogh Rasmussen I after the 2001 Danish parliamentary election, in which refugees, immigration, and integration of people from non-western countries had been important issues.

One of the stated goals of the Anders Fogh cabinet, and especially the supporting Danish People's Party which secured the government's majority, was to "stem the flow" of refugees to Denmark, and new tougher rules did drastically reduce the number of refugees being granted asylum. Another initiative was the 24 year rule, which stated that spouses must be 24 or older before they could immigrate to Denmark through family reunification (there had been many cases of arranged marriages of young people being used to get around immigration restrictions).

It was abolished by the Cabinet of Helle Thorning-Schmidt after Rasmussen's right-wing alliance lost the 2011 election.

List of ministers of refugees, immigration and integration

No.	Portrait	Name (Born-Died)	Term			Political party	Government
			Took office	Left office	Duration
Minister for Refugees, Immigrants and Integration (Minister for flygtninge, indvandrere og integration)
1		Bertel Haarder (born 1944)	27 November 2001	18 February 2005	3 years, 83 days	Venstre	Anders Fogh Rasmussen I Cabinet
2		Rikke Hvilshøj (born 1970)	18 February 2005	23 November 2007	2 years, 278 days	Venstre	Anders Fogh Rasmussen II Cabinet
3		Birthe Rønn Hornbech (born 1943)	23 November 2007	8 March 2011	3 years, 105 days	Venstre	Anders Fogh Rasmussen III Cabinet Lars Løkke Rasmussen I Cabinet
4		Søren Pind (born 1969)	8 March 2011	3 October 2011	209 days	Venstre	Lars Løkke Rasmussen I Cabinet
Minister for Social Affairs and Integration (Social- og integrationsminister)
5		Karen Hækkerup (born 1974)	3 October 2011	9 August 2013	1 year, 310 days	Social Democrats	Thorning-Schmidt I Cabinet
Minister for Social Affairs, Children and Integration (Social-, børne- og integrationsminister)
6		Annette Vilhelmsen (born 1959)	9 August 2013	3 February 2014	178 days	SF	Thorning-Schmidt I Cabinet
Minister for Children, Gender Equality, Integration and Social Affairs (Minister for børn, ligestilling, integration og sociale forhold)
7		Manu Sareen (born 1967)	3 October 2011	28 June 2015	3 years, 268 days	Social Liberals	Thorning-Schmidt II Cabinet
Minister for Immigration, Integration and Housing (Udlændinge-, Integrations- og Boligminister)
8		Inger Støjberg (born 1973)	28 June 2015	28 November 2016	1 year, 153 days	Venstre	Lars Løkke Rasmussen II Cabinet
Minister for Immigration and Integration (Udlændinge- og Integrationsminister)
8		Inger Støjberg (born 1973)	28 November 2016	27 June 2019	2 years, 211 days	Venstre	Lars Løkke Rasmussen III Cabinet
9		Mattias Tesfaye (born 1981)	27 June 2019	2 May 2022	2 years, 309 days	Social Democrats	Frederiksen I Cabinet
10		Kaare Dybvad (born 1984)	2 May 2022	Incumbent	1 year, 349 days	Social Democrats	Frederiksen I Cabinet–II

External links

• History of the Ministry. From its official homepage

References

• Tørre tal om indvandrere og kriminalitet - from Danmarks Statistik.
• Årbog om udlændinge i Danmark 2001 - From the Ministry of the Interior.