I’ve always thought of being a refugee as a temporarily thing until the situation at the source country settles down.
That’s true. But refugees who have lived and worked long-time in Germany can get the right to reside here permanently, independently from their right to asylum or similar protection. This is to encourage them to actually get a job rather than just rely on government handouts.
I think the idea of working while you are living as a refugee can be problematic. I’d be fine with refugees just relying on government assistance for the duration of their stay, assuming it isn’t a decade long stay or something.
I’d assume that it’s pretty rare that the situation that prompted someone to flee their home country actually resolves within a decade.
In cases like the Syrian civil war or political prosecution in regimes like Iran, it can easily be more than a decade. If you prohibit anyone from getting any work for that long and force them to sit on their hands (or work illegally without a permit), they will have a hard time getting back into work and probably continue to rely on government handouts. Who wants to employ someone who hasn’t worked any job for a decade (as an adult) after all?
So you have a choice: Either you allow and encourage refugees to get into the workforce early and accept that they will probably remain here even if they could return after like 5 years. Or you stop them from working for years and accept that many refugees will remain here for decades and rely on government handouts the entire time without ever finding a job.
I did specifically mention cases where the times as a refugee is very long. So I’d be fine with after that time, but not straight away. That opens up the door for too much abuse, both towards the system and towards the refugees themselves.
If you prohibit anyone from getting any work for that long and force them to sit on their hands (or work illegally without a permit), they will have a hard time getting back into work and probably continue to rely on government handouts. Who wants to employ someone who hasn’t worked any job for a decade (as an adult) after all?
But they’re refugees. And that the situation is supposed to be temporary. If the they end up staying for a long time, that sort of gap in the resume is fairly easy to explain with them not being allowed to work during that time. Not to mention, it’s not exactly picky jobs that someone who is on refugee status and just came into the country is typically working in.
So you have a choice: Either you allow and encourage refugees to get into the workforce early and accept that they will probably remain here even if they could return after like 5 years.
That’s not really the intention of the system. It’s not supposed to be just another form of migration or way to be able to work in the destination country. The cause for your temporary refuge in your source country is over, you’re supposed to go back home.
Or you stop them from working for years and accept that many refugees will remain here for decades and rely on government handouts the entire time without ever finding a job.
Yes, I’d be fine with some of them staying for a long time if the situation calls for it and government taking care of them. That’s sorta the responsibility the government has towards refugees. They are people who are (hopefully) temporary displaced and need a play to stay while the situation settles. And if after extended stay they need extra help to find work then government should absolutely help them there too.
If the they end up staying for a long time, that sort of gap in the resume is fairly easy to explain with them not being allowed to work during that time.
I have a feeling that that’s usually not the way most employers treat applicants. Migrants already have a harder time getting jobs. The government shouldn’t make it even more difficult.
Yes, I’d be fine with some of them staying for a long time if the situation calls for it and government taking care of them.
Most refugees not working will just fuel anti refugee sentiments in the population.
I can see the argument for not allowing refugees to work for maybe the first one or two years. But if they have to stay longer than that, they will probably have to stay long term and the government should prioritise integrating them into society and into the workforce.
Furthermore, if we want to keep immigration as low as possible, it would make a lot of sense to prioritise training refugees for jobs where there’s a shortage (like many blue-collar jobs here in Germany) rather than relying on hiring professionals from abroad in addition to housing refugees. While there’s the additional training cost and time, these refugees will at least have been trained in German rather than their native language.
I have a feeling that that’s usually not the way most employers treat applicants. Migrants already have a harder time getting jobs. The government shouldn’t make it even more difficult.
These are specifically not regular migrants who moved for work but refugees. Yes they are going to have harder time in that a lot of other things, whether they stay for a little while or end up living and working there. And government definitely should help them, once it’s clear they haven’t been able to return in any sort of sensible time and when there’s strong indication they won’t be able to return home soon or even indefinitely. But considering they are refugees, the thing is to give them a safe play to stay, temporarily, until they can return home. Not to lay the groundwork for living and working in the destination country indefinitely. That’s not the intention of the refugee system.
Most refugees not working will just fuel anti refugee sentiments in the population.
Most refugees existing will fuel it. But pushing or allowing them to work, even though that’s not at all what refugee status is supposed to be for isn’t the solution to anti refugee sentiment. Hell, them working will piss others off. But a big talking point is the misuse of the refugee system as just another form of migration and working instead of the actual purpose of giving temporary shelter to people under threat.
Misuse of that sort is a huge talking point fueling anti-refugee sentiment right now, with people thinking they’re just coming here for better life instead of escaping life threatening situation and that’s what many have used to try and scrap the refugee system altogether. Actually keeping to the intended purpose of the refugee status would IMO help and not harm their situation.
But if they have to stay longer than that, they will probably have to stay long term and the government should prioritise integrating them into society and into the workforce.
That’s something to do once it is clear they can’t return home as intended.
Furthermore, if we want to keep immigration as low as possible, it would make a lot of sense to prioritise training refugees for jobs where there’s a shortage (like many blue-collar jobs here in Germany) rather than relying on hiring professionals from abroad in addition to housing refugees. While there’s the additional training cost and time, these refugees will at least have been trained in German rather than their native language.
That’s not at all what the refugee system is for and shouldn’t be used for. That can be very easily turned into exploitation and it just makes the whole system seem a lot sketchier. The purpose is to give them temporarily a safe place to stay while there’s a situation in their source country why they’ve had to flee. It’s not a solution for better off countries to fix their economic issues.
I agree that refugees who only need protection for a short period of time should return home afterwards and only really need shelter here. But other refugees won’t be able to return to their homeland for much longer.
At some point in time the government has to switch from just sheltering a refugee to helping them integrate into society.
In my opinion, the government should make this switch rather early, in the interest of facilitating integration over keeping immigration numbers low. I would rather have more immigrants with a higher percentage of them being well integrated than having fewer immigrants but more of them being badly integrated.
The point is to have a system where you can mistreat migrant laborers illegally because if they speak up they lose their job and get deported. At the same time you can pretend to actually care about workers with your legislation and create a white labor aristocracy.
Sad but true.
This country is desperate for workers and too stubborn and racist to actually let people work here.
See, if a refugee exists that actually has a job and can pay for its own life, Ronny, Tschantall and Maik are reminded that they dont have a job and cant pay for their own shit. And as long as this is happening they need to shit on whoever is actually not a lowlife looser because this very fact makes em feel shitty. So they vote afd because its always easier to shit on others than trying to get your own shit together.
But they have a job, that’s the point! Thuringia has almost full employment, just as Germany as a whole.
If you’re unemployed in Germany right now, lack of jobs is not the reason why. Ironically, many women are forced to stay unemployed, because they can’t find kindergardens, because the kindergardens are also lacking teachers and can’t take on more kids.
Luckily, the man in this story got his work permit back after public backlash (German news report).
So this refugee is lazy AND takes away our jobs? Big if true
Schrödinger’s Refugee 😐
The real story sounds even weirder. They took his work permit for the sole purpose of stopping any integration that could hinder a later deportation. Wtf. Fachkräftemangel my ass.
Haha here in sweden the immigrants are the best thing that happened to this place(saying this as an immigrant…). Other than the manner in which the swedish government distrobuted them which increased violent crime in the pockets of immigrants. They spice up life(literally because swedish food is boring af).
We had spicy food even before the mass immigration wave, and the gov:t didn’t decide how to distribute them, because it isn’t allowed to force people to live somewhere.
There were actually several instances where immigrants were bussed to northern Sweden to house them there (lots of nice, cheap, empty housing up north), but they refused to get off the busses. On one occasion a bus driver was threatened with death if he didn’t drive them back - guy went for a piss at the next fuel stop and left them.
All in all, a shit situation.
…the gov:t didn’t *decide* how to distribute them, because it isn’t allowed to force people to live somewhere.
…several instances where immigrants were bussed to northern Sweden to house them…they refused to get off the busses.
So, let me get this straight, the government non-forcefully drove a bunch of immigrants, that had come from the subtropics, to the arctic circle, who refused to get off the buses, and you don’t find anything a little ‘on the nose’ about that?
Sounds like they had a bloody good reason for being upset, and I can’t think of any reason why they’d be in the wrong.
Is there parts of Sweden that are subtropical? Can’t say the situation is good for anyone involved there, however the way you word it just makes it sound like the immigrants and extremely ungrateful to have been given a home at all?
I think it was to house asylum seekers and they are housed in facilities around the country to share the burden of it.
And they had come to Sweden to seek asylum. Not sure what they expected. It’s not exactly the Riviera.
I’m pretty sure their only expectation was to not die in a war. That doesn’t make it right to bus a bunch of people to the arctic nowhere and expect them to just live. If the bus driver was being threatened, was there no government workers to receive them and at least help them somewhat?
IIRC it wasn’t government just ferrying off a bunch of immigrants to the middle of nowhere and said “you live here now” but instead sent some asylum seekers there for the duration of the process to confirm (or deny) their asylum. And asylum seekers at least where I live, for the duration of the processing of their status, live in special facilities. This happened to be in a place they didn’t like, which imo makes their attitude seem a lot less understandable.
They spice up life
I think everyone agrees on that, no matter what side they are on
Is “thuringer,” the meat/sausage, named for that place? I fucking love thuringer. 🤤
It is
We have this massive bureaucracy complex which consumes so much tax money and NO ONE CAN REMEMBER, WHY THEY REVOKED HIS WORK-PERMIT IN THE FIRST PLACE?! This makes me angry. He is doing his best ffs! He left his war torn homeland, came here and got a job. And because someone felt like it, they do shit like this?! I can’t belive it.
