Jan Björklund and the Liberal Party wants to put more pressure on immigrants.
In Dagens Nyheter today presented new proposals for a “clearer working line” of integration:
Requirements for the job to be reunited with relatives and permanent residence, lower starting salaries and language requirements to obtain citizenship.
– Idiotic, says immigration law lawyer Viktor Banke.
The Liberal Party leader Jan Björklund writing along with MPs Gulan Avci, Roger Haddad and Robert Hannah today in Dagens Nyheter’s opinion page that Sweden is and should be a “humanitarian superpower” and that the party wants to protect the right of asylum.
“Modernising labor law”
At the same time the quartet, which today presents five proposals from the party’s working group on integration, tighten requirements for immigrants with a “clearer working line” through changes in the labor market and “increased incentives for the individual “:
The first Family reunification shall be possible only when the person living in Sweden meets the security requirement, regular income and a home.
The second Permanent residence permit only when an immigrant getting jobs. If security grounds are left after three years, it may become the permanent.
3rd “Modernising labor law” with altered Las Rules and lower starting salaries and faster process of getting foreign qualifications to become Swedish.
4th Cancel allowance.
5th Language requirements for citizenship.
“Dark brown dog whistle politics”
The Liberal Party proposed the language requirements for citizenship first time before the election in 2002. The election was a great success for the party, and the success has been linked to the proposal.
The Socialist MP Veronica Palm tweeted this morning:
“Not only dark brown dog whistle politics, moreover, ineffective and counterproductive if the objective is increased integration”.
The Green Party group leader in parliament and spokesperson on justice and migration issues, Maria Ferm, tweeting: “Incredibly sad that the Liberal Party is proposing temporary residence permit. Keeps families apart, complicates integration, cost more money.”
The lawyer Viktor Banke is specialized in migration – and family law. Although he is highly critical of FP’s proposal.
He asks what FP is based on the perception that the desire to get a job lacking in immigrants.
– You insinuate that there are incentives missing. But there is no asylum seekers or immigrants I’ve met whose biggest dream is to get a job.
“Idiotic Proposal”
– It is an idiotic suggestions of very many reasons. I do not see at all how it should promote integration. There is nothing from other countries suggests that racism and SD would be reduced by approving their problem formulations.
– If you want to really integrate these people would be able to discuss unemployment, housing situation, but also rehabilitation, says Viktor Banke, and takes up many refugees from war zones suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
– Here you put the burden on those who are most vulnerable, rather than as politicians take responsibility.
According Banke is temporary permits an ineffective integration measure, which increases uncertainty and makes people be prevented from long term and to get into the community.
– Migration Board based its assessment for permanent residence on security grounds at a forward-looking assessment. In the example Syria, who by far is the country from which most people receive permanent residence permit in Sweden, it is estimated that the conflict is prolonged. Make FP another assessment, and if so, on what grounds?
Banke also states that support is lacking to supply demands of family immigration would increase integration.
– One may ask what they build it on. There is no evidence for it. On the contrary, shattered families unnecessarily and suffering increases, which has the opposite effect.
Ohlsson opponents 2002
Birgitta Ohlsson, a favorite to take over if the criticized party leader Björklund might resign, went against his own party in the election of 2002.
“Quizzes I will be working towards,” she told the Daily News that time. Ohlsson declines today to comment, because she is on maternity leave.
Gulan Avci, chairman of Liberal women and member of the FP’s integration group says about the criticism of the proposals:
– We are a party that wants to see a clear integration policy linked to the labor market. Does not having it gets actually deliver better suggestions themselves and say what the alternative is.
When asked what FP based his argument on, that lack of motivation among immigrants would be the problem of integration, says Avci:
– We know today that unemployment is much higher among foreign-born, and we’ll get more people working, we need to increase the incentives to bring in their own living. It is part of taking a step into the community. Activation is integration best friend.
Difficult to answer if the driver
What indicates that there is a lack of momentum that makes high unemployment among immigrants?
– The driving force to just leave a country to get into another is great in itself, but it must not go out when you come to Sweden. But the thresholds for entering the labor market must also be lowered, otherwise we build an exclusion.
But there is no study that shows that the problem would be to drive to get a job lacking in immigrants today?
– It is obvious that unemployment is high and with the forecasts of the Swedish Migration Board is talking about, we mean that the drivers must increase. A clear working line is a clear incentive, but it must also be a social model that lowers the thresholds, with more unskilled jobs that do not require training or work experience.
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