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“German refugee policies are not suitable for current global challenges,” said Benjamin Etzold this week in Berlin.
Recalling Germany’s recent federal election campaign, which was quite shaped by the issue of immigration, Atzold feels that the debate was very “hot” and also focused on how immigration affects Germany – something that he believes that there is no possibility of replacement under the new government.The researcher feels that public debate can be improved by more interest in facts and scientific conclusions, while the global dimension of displacement is still being ignored to a great extent.Does the border control deterus?The migration expert also rapidly criticized the border controls of Chancellor Frederick Merz: Border controls and shook back to migrants and refugee. The effectiveness of such measures is extremely reduced, Etzold said.Frank Dwewell, a migration researcher at the University of Osnabrück, agrees. “Whenever someone turns back, he will try again and again until he is in the country.”This applies to the internal and external borders of the European Union. “Whenever a route is closed, there is another route nearby. It can be more dangerous, but then it is used more often,” Duwell said, he and other researchers have analyzed. This is fine that brings human smugglers to the scene.How to make smuggling networks moneyHuman smugglers are specialized in providing irregular, sometimes illegal and often life-threatening migration routes to desperate people. One of the authors of the BICC report, Duwell said, “It can use fake documents that can be hidden in trucks, it can be these unnatural boats.” “This is unwanted side effects, which we see again and again with such 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 necessary that multilateral refugees and migrant policies are revived, even without the involvement of the United States,” said Etzold. “Germany may take a European and global leadership position on this issue, rather than pursuing national reactions.”Improves people’s possibilitiesMore and more people are being detained in camps for a long time. They can be provided for and can be managed there, Etzold said, but the frustrated reduction of possibilities in such places forces people to move forward, many of them are in Germany.The researcher only sees a viable way to change that “ultimately, only legal safety and better life prospects where they can reduce pressure for further stay and prevent irregular 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-Nururg, who also worked on the report, fears that Germany may break the law by changing the people back to 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.
