The Influence of ngos on Danish Migration Policy in the 1930s

This article contributes to a debate initiated in this journal in 2019 on the influence of ngo s on migration policies in twentieth-century Western Europe. The study further develops previous studies by examining how ngo s in 1930s Denmark managed and used different types of legitimacy to gain political influence. The claims of this article can be useful in seeing the influence of ngo s as a process in which moral and pragmatic legitimacy are decisive factors in different phases of this process. The study finds that moral legitimacy is crucial for ngo s in the initial phase of gaining access to negotiations with policymakers: the so-called ‘insider strategies’. Pragmatic legitimacy proves to be important for ngo s when access to insider strategies is achieved. The ngo s used their pragmatic legitimacy – for instance, their ability to reduce costs for the state – when negotiating with policymakers

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