Donnerstag, 23. März 2006
Humanitarian issues
urmila, 19:10h
There is at the moment a discussion about the planed deportation of a family of 'Kurdish' origin to Turkey. They have lived here for 17 years, the children have spend most or all of their lives here. They are 'well integrated', do not know Turkish. One daugther (together with a group she is active in) has even been honoured by the German president for their actions against antisemitism. Now the 'German' public does not understand why this 'integrated' family should be deported - neither do I. The administration is thus now willing to grant three children a permit of residence to finish their schooling, while the rest of the family should be deported.
It is definitely a case which illustrates well the inhumanity of the German asylum laws and deportation practice. But as one of the members of the commission for cases of hardship argues such a case should not be one of humanitarian issues. It is only the law which makes it thus. The real humanitarian issues concern the people who do not have the chance to 'integrate' that well. But with those 'we' do not seem to want to deal at all.
And then there also always remains the question about what 'integration' really is and whether it should be a condition at all.
It is definitely a case which illustrates well the inhumanity of the German asylum laws and deportation practice. But as one of the members of the commission for cases of hardship argues such a case should not be one of humanitarian issues. It is only the law which makes it thus. The real humanitarian issues concern the people who do not have the chance to 'integrate' that well. But with those 'we' do not seem to want to deal at all.
And then there also always remains the question about what 'integration' really is and whether it should be a condition at all.
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