The integration of Labour minister Lodewijk Asscher has failed – ThePostOnline

The integration of Labour minister Lodewijk Asscher has failed. We can do that after yet another critical report this week came out well. But one in three of the inburgeraars takes the exam within the prescribed period of three years. Now wants to minister Asscher that newcomers to a so-called 'participatieverklaring' sign. Asscher performs this PVV/VVD policy of the cabinet Rutte I. It is naive to think that people integrate because they are, on penalty of a fine of a piece of paper to sign. A piece of paper that they are often not even able to read, because the newcomers speak no English. D66 wants people to be able to do. There should be language courses from day one and of a good education on how the Dutch society works.

The refugee as a business model

That integration of Asscher fails on the one hand because the newcomer himself has to find its way on complicated government websites that are often in Dutch – a language that the inburgeraar for the start of the inburgeringstraject of course not powerful. On the other hand, because the market for inburgeringsonderwijs three years ago, has been released. Businesses for language courses shoot up like mushrooms from the ground. The quality of these lessons varies greatly, because there is hardly any monitoring. Be inburgeraars lured with 'free' laptops and tablets that will eventually go off of the budget for integration that newcomers can borrow from the government. These companies earn gold money. The refugee as a business model. Full of the crazy. But, until recently, kept a minister Asscher of the Labour party insisting that it all 'is much more positive than previously thought”.

Each other, this would be a big failure.

party Leader/minister Asscher

Now takes a leader Asscher away from the failed policies of market forces, the own responsibility of the migrants and of the obligation of result of prime minister Asscher. Because leader Asscher we hear in the rooms say it all otherwise. Now, just before the elections, a rich and a lean harvest of four years offered a ministerial appointment. It is only really complicated if you consider that secretary Asscher this week are pièce de resistance presents. Asscher wants to be a so-called participatieverklaring add it as a new part of the civic integration programme. A paper tiger that newcomers under penalty of a fine is forcing the Dutch core values to endorse.

What’s Asscher?

It stick for D66, a lot of objections. The refugee needs to the 'core values' of the Netherlands adhere to. But what these core values are, light Asscher no further. Characterizes the Netherlands is not correct because values are constantly subject to debate? And mean Asscher actually not just standards or the law? That would D66 wholeheartedly support, were it not that everyone is always already the law must keep. Just a newcomer, not a separate piece of paper to sign.

And then again, the Dutch language is an obstacle. How can newcomers actually learn something if they were at the start of the trajectory the Dutch language yet not speak? Asscher writes to that effect in twelve languages available brochure has been prepared. This means that the introduction in the Dutch core values is not more serious than the review of a brochure? That is very friendly and helpful. The offer of language lessons from the first day that the new entrant residing in the Netherlands is a better solution. Coincidentally, there is also an assumed D66 proposal. But lessons are not yet given. As Asscher feats, would he even be able to start work.

Inside the civic Integration Act would Asscher now a whopping two boetesystemen want to go and handle. One for not signing the participatieverklaring and one for not passing the integration exam. The question is what the value is of the signing of the declaration if there is a fine opposite? The participatieverklaring seems to be nothing else than an extra boetemogelijkheid in a freedom party and now also Labour-law!

Result instead of paper tiger

D66 wants that Asscher is concerned with results rather than with paper tigers. D66 wants to lose the language courses of varying quality of often dubious companies. For D66 are assimilation and integration is a shared responsibility. A responsibility that for new entrants the obligations to within a certain period of time to acquire. There is the responsibility for the provision of inburgeringsonderwijs of the government opposite. In addition, should the lessons be adapted to the level of the inburgeraar, so that the highly-skilled pharmacist from Aleppo, the illiterate, from Eritrea and the Iranian housewife, each tailor-made service.

We need to integrate again to see if mutual interest, a shared task, instead of only as a verb for the newcomer. That is good for the newcomer and good for the society. That leader Asscher fixed also.