She grew up in Denmark, but people still tell her she is not Danish: “Either they see you as the angry immigrant, or they see you as the grateful immigrant, but you must be rooted in yourself.”
Lena arrived in Denmark as a 9-year-old refugee from Kosovo, attended Danish schools and built a career at some of the country’s biggest companies. She says racist slurs and comments questioning whether she belongs have followed her into adult life. Now she has written a book about identity, discrim