ABSTRACT
Family reunification policy is currently one of the most politically contested immigration issues in the EU. Family migration policy has constantly been an issue in electoral campaigns and it is so important that parties actually win or lose votes depending on the position they take on family reunification. The difficulties in being family reunified in Denmark is a matter for both Danish and foreign citizens residing in Denmark. The division of people within the nation state through their different entitlements to family reunification becomes clearer when analysing it through the different devices/techniques of requirements. The first change in 1998 made it possible to refuse family reunion in cases where it seemed that a third party had set up the marriage/partnership. Family reunification could only be granted if the marriage was considered to be made between two consenting persons and there was no suspicion or signs of a third party being involved in the arrangement of the marriage.
