Appeal of 27 organizations to the federal, state and municipalities
Berlin/Osnabrück, 09.05.2023 - On the occasion of the refugee summit, the children's rights organization terre des hommes in a joint appeal and warns of legal and practical changes that further tighten their situation.
The well-being of the child and the rights of refugee minors are already disregarded in many places: the lowering of accommodation standards, life in overcrowded accommodations and a lack of integration of child and youth welfare in particular violate their rights to protection, education, adequate health care and participation. Unaccompanied minor refugees are also illegally accommodated in collective accommodation in some federal states because there are not enough places available in youth welfare facilities.
»The federal government, the federal states and municipalities must immediately find common solutions that ensure the well -being of refugee children and adolescents. Populism and the agreement on more deportations and European foreclosure do not help children or municipalities - they only cause more violations of the law, «said Sophia Eckert, a consultant for flight and migration at terre des hommes . In particular, the planned agreement on the establishment of other central arrival facilities, from which, so-called "anchor centers", so-called "anchor centers", is particularly worrying. "In its coalition agreement, the Federal Government has known itself for a departure from the anchor-center concept," said Sophia Eckert. “Rightly so - because they are not a place for children. It is shocking that this failed concept is now being packed on the table. "
In addition to the immediate measures proposed in Apell - such as a stronger federal cost sharing in measures for child protection in accommodation and in the absorption of unaccompanied minors - terre des hommes primarily requires flexibility of the recording system through decentralized accommodation and the reduction of bureaucratic hurdles. »Instead of thinking about new anchor centers, the obligation to live in a collective accommodation in all federal states should immediately be waived in order to relax the situation for families and municipalities. It is absurd that children and families have to live in overcrowded accommodations, especially if they are offered private living space, «explained Sophia Eckert.
In addition to immediate measures terre des hommes calls for rethinking in the admission policy, so that municipalities do not always come into overload situations again and again and that the well -being of refugee children and adolescents is ensured even with increasing entry numbers. “It is currently often forgotten that the current overload situation is above all a result of massive structure degradation in recent years. It is finally necessary to keep concepts for the accusation of capacities that do justice to the dynamics of migration movements instead of repeatedly falling into hectic actionism, which is primarily at the expense of a group, namely that of those seeking protection, «emphasized Sophia Eckert.