“German refugee policies are not suitable for current global challenges,” said Benjamin Etzold this week in Berlin. “Global Forced Displacement Report,” Which he wrote along with his colleagues of Bon International Center for Conflict Studies (BICC).
Recalling Germany’s recent federal election campaign, which was quite shaped by the issue of migration, Etzold feels that the debate was very “hot” and also focuses on how the migration affects Germany – something that he believes to change under the new government.
Public debate can do more interest in facts and scientific conclusions, thinking Resarer, while the global dimension of displacement is still being ignored to a great extent.
Does the border control deterus?
The migrant expert criticized Chancellor Frederick Merz’s leading new policy announcement: Border controls and criticized migrants and refugees so fast. The effectiveness of such measures is extremely reduced, Etzold said.
Migration researcher Frank Dewvel agreed: “Any person is back gymnastics, he will try again and again until he is in the country.”
This also applies to the exterior borders of the block along the internal borders of the European Union. Duwell said, “Any route is closed, there is another route nearby. It can be more dangerous, but then it is used more often,” Duwell said, they and other researchers have analyzed. This is fine that brings human smugglers to the scene.
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Human smugglers are specialized in providing irregular, sometimes illegal, and often living migration routes to desperate people: “He is using Koolt fake documents, which may be hidden in trucks, this cult thesis may be as unavitical boats,” said the author of the BIC report. “This is an unqualified side effect, which we see repeatedly with search measures.”
Against this background, asylum and migration experts look at the new report as an appeal to the international community to draw together to deal with the problem.
“It is immediately essential that multilateral refugees and migrant policies are revived, even with special states,” Etzold said. “Germany may take a European and global leadership position on this issue, rather than pursuing national reactions.”
Improves people’s possibilities
People seeking security to more and more people are being expanded in camps for a long time. They can be provided and managed there, said the expert said, but the frustration of possibilities in such places forces people to move forward – many of them for Germany.
Etzold only sees only a viable way to change: “Ultimately, only legal safety and better life prospects where the pressure for further migration is reduced and preventing iregular migration in Germany.”
Atzold thinks that it is reverse by the new government of Germany to significantly limit legal access routes through human reception programs or family reunion. They believe that the policy can also encourage the irregular migration that they want to compete.
Not only this, Petra Bendel of the University of Erlangen-Nurberg, who works on the report, fears that Germany may break the law by changing the border. The right to asylum is preserved in both the Constitution of Germany, or basic laws, as well as European law. “If you put politics in front of these laws, you are opening the door of autocracy,” he said.
This article was original in German.
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