German Refugee Crisis(德国难民危机)

German Refugee Crisis

The International Organization for Migration counted that the number of irregular migrates and refugees who mainly from Middle East Asia and Africa had crossed 1 million ending 2015 on 21 December. Germany had received the most of first time asylum applications among all European countries. Merely in the third quarter of 2015, Germany had received almost 26 per cent of total asylum applications which were around 10800. Under the massive influx of refugees, financial burden was not the only vexed issue that racked local state, the mounting separatist tendencies of entire Germany society was considered as more dangerous threaten in the long term. With the launch of an impulsive and buoyantly optimistic refugee policy, German almost became the first selection to major asylum seekers. Nevertheless huge number was not the primary cause of the problem, the root of this crisis was that German society failed to integrate these outsiders. Generally if one country is willing to accept refugees, the reason is not only base on humanity but also consider that migrant’s “worth” to the country such as economic, politic, ethnic. However different with the migrants’ waves after two world wars, almost every industry in German now has already been developed into a high level, so they demand certain job skills which most of the refugees obviously do not have. Unemployed refugees could only depend on government relief to support themselves and their families. That is why those Germans who used to support or be neutral about refugee policy turn to opposite side nowadays, they cannot endure the government finance bear all cost of refugees in perpetuity.

On the other hand, the increasing of crime and terrorist attacks in German refugee and migrants centers constantly stimulated nervous natives. Although police announced that Syrian and Iraqi immigrants were found to be less frequent in committing crime and they had kept track of crimes committed by migrants, negative criticism still continue to grow. For example, complaints of sexual assaults were registered on New Year Eve in Cologne, and this number h ad risen to 516. Female citizens also state in their complains that they were subjected to lewd insults and robbery. Although some German politicians supported to deporting migrants or refugees directly after committing crimes, but truth is that deportation continues to be not possible. Situations like these shocked the entire country, and boosted xenophobic and populism. Thousands of people were attending the rallies of anti-Islamic group, and other homogeneous parties received increased support in regional elections held in Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt in March 2016. A worrying concern is that these parties would possibly exploit public fear to gain more status in German politic and may impact national direction in the future.

In general, the situations continues to sharpen, begin with overoptimism policy which

received excessive refugees, then high proportions could be difficult to integrate into German society and completely depended on government, some even committed in crime, the consequence were the increasing in both financial burden and crime rate. Thus the rift between the whole German community become ever more serious and growing number of citizens change to exclusive position. In order to encounter this emergency society disunity situation and finding a balance between outsiders and natives, there are something must be done. First of all, an orderly and reasonable immigration policies which allow the regular flow of asylum seekers enter Germany may be necessary and justified on numerous grounds. Secondly, government or public organizations have to integrating immigrants by establishing bonds and bridges to connect them with German society, for example strong anti-discrimination policies, accelerated language instruction, job training programs, residential and school integration, the discouragement of enclaves, and liberal naturalization policies are all a start. Adults must be placed in the labor market, including as many women as possible. Children must be in full-day schools, as ethnically integrated as possible with instruction only in German; the US experience with Spanish bi-lingual education has not been impressive. At last, government should enforce laws of deportation. Comparing with German, America keeps a harsher deportation action, 235,000 non-citizens were deporting from America and 60% for the reasons of crime. German government has to express their determination on deporting criminal migrants, through this way to deter other malevolent person and show that government is always protecting public interests. Although the future of Germany is full of uncertain, it is still has hope to contribute a win-win mode to satisfy both natives and refugees.