Family reunification: Family is not always good

The Greens insist on family reunification also for tolerated refugees. This is where the conclusion of the probes hooks. The demand is not necessarily meaningful.

Family reunification: Family is not always good
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    How can a family party like CSU be opposed to allowing wives, children, parents, perhaps grandparents, uncles and aunts of war and citizen Kriegsopferns who have fled here to enter? The fact that CSU is doing this, while Greens insist on possibility, has prevented a successful conclusion of exploratory talks for a black-yellow-green coalition at night. Now, negotiators have to sit down.

    The point of contention remains on negotiating table. Without a solution to issue of family reunification, it will hardly be possible to reach an agreement on already most difficult Jamaica issue of immigration/refugees/integration. Nor does it include opening of coalition negotiations.

    At first glance, it seems strange, refore, why CSU and also CDU oppose refugees with so-called subsidiary protection, which are neir politically persecuted and refore entitled to asylum, nor directly threatened by war in ir homeland, furr Want to forbid family members to catch up. After all, it goes "only" to estimated 60,000 people who would probably get additional. So no more mass immigration.

    Parallel worlds with families

    But question has high symbolic significance: CSU wants to show that it is doing everything it can to effectively limit immigration. Therefore, it had already prevailed during grand coalition that family reunification was suspended for this group of refugees – unlike recognised asylum seekers and direct victims of war. It would like to extend this decision.

    The Greens, on or hand, want to demonstrate that y are committed to humane treatment of refugees and a welcome culture. A concession from or parties on this point would make it easier for m to gain consent in ir base and ir functionaries for painful own concessions, such as setting up of reception camps or classification of Maghreb as Safe countries of origin.

    In order to substantiate ir demand, Greens argue that family reunification is conducive to integration. Those who have ir own family feel no longer alone and no longer as merely tolerated guest on time and will be easier to integrate into local society.

    But this is doubtful for several reasons. Firstly, migration and integration experts have doubts as to wher repetition of families will in any case facilitate integration. Experiences with first generation of migrants, guest workers, showed rar that n parallel worlds emerge, in which migrants live with ir families – separated from rest of population.

    Date Of Update: 18 November 2017, 12:02
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