With FRP government should boy suit you well to end up in a situation where you have to apply for asylum. It is considered namely that crime and you may risk being trapped.
By Liv Tørres, Secretary General of Norwegian People's Aid and Trygve Augestad, head unit for refugee and integration in Norwegian People's Aid
FRP has repeatedly argued that the reception centers in the country to close. They believe it is necessary to block asylum seekers in order to ensure the safety of staff at the reception, and that they should run away and commit crimes.
If one is to take Progress seriously in this matter, they mean that asylum seekers are people that Norwegians should fear because they are too dangerous to walk freely in Norway. Norwegian People's Aid has run reception centers for over 20 years and has extensive experience in refugee and integration work. So far we have not experienced anything that would indicate that it is necessary to make the opening reception into prison. On the contrary.
Today there are 126 asylum in Norway, including transit and enhanced reception. At these centers live between 15 000 and 16 000. Norwegian People's Aid operates nine of these centers with a total of 1600 seats. Our experience is that conditions in centers are generally quiet and peaceful - despite the difficult situation many of our residents is meanwhile waiting for a clarification of their applications.
Norwegian People's Aid is accepting sealed reception because it is contrary to fundamental human rights. Putting people who have not done anything wrong in prison will further pacification and suspicion on an already vulnerable group.
FRP shows that many asylum seekers coming to Norway without identification papers. It has the very right in. FRP believes that as long as they do not have a birth certificate or passport to show, they need to be locked up. The implication that people without identity papers is creepy and possibly have a criminal background they try to hide.
There are millions of people in the world today who lack personal identification papers. The most common reasons for this is that many countries lack a functioning device in order to offer its citizens formal identification papers. Many flee from countries where infrastructure and its management is bombed to pieces and lying down because of war and conflict.
Only five percent of those who come to Norway have identification papers. Not having identification papers is not a crime - a no benefit, especially for those who lack them. Therefore working more than 90 percent of those concerned with the Norwegian authorities in order to obtained formal information about his identity (according to UDI) so that they can get such a fair decision as possible in its application. It is also naive to think that solves everything just to know who people are, or rather only do they have a pass.
Progress will prevent crime in the Norwegian society, and that we share with them. However, we strongly disagree with the method to obtain less unrest and crime. People will not be able to get their liberty deprived of reason. People will either not be able to be suspicion or pacified.
Closed reception will worsen the situation for asylum seekers. Instead, believes Norwegian People's Aid, Norwegian society would be better served by creating better conditions for asylum seekers - regardless of whether they have been granted or not - can contribute to society. Norwegian People's Aid believes that they should be able to work from day one and have better opportunities to learn Norwegian while sitting at your reception. This is both better integration policies and return policies for them to return to their homeland.
FRP refers often to Greece's asylum policy and practice. Greece put asylum seekers in closed reception to the extent there is reception there at all. It is during the 1000 reception places in a society where there is probably hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers.
Norwegian People's Aid so even stacks of applications in the Health Ministry in Athens of vulnerable refugees who needed shelter on a visit in 2010. They could only help a fraction and since then the situation has become even worse. In 2011, the European Court of Human Rights that the situation in Greece was inhuman and unworthy of asylum seekers.
Meanwhile, crime and unrest a major challenge for the authorities in Greece. Yet consider FRP Greece's asylum practices as a role model for the Norwegian society. This must rest on arrogance or lack of knowledge of FRP.
Our experience is that most people who come to Norway wants to actively contribute to the society they come. Few people want to be social clients. When asylum seekers are not allowed to work, the daily fast characterized by passivity and despair. This is in addition to a living situation at the reception where staff levels are low, the standard is very simple, where residents are located in an unresolved situation often unreasonably long time.
Today is not asylum seekers to work. This legislation, we believe inhibits a good integration. Asylum seekers who are waiting for a clarification of its application should be able to work and fend for themselves. Work is motivating for those who can stay or must return.
Norwegian People's Aid believes that integration should start at the reception, and one of the most important assets is work.
Finally, we recall that it is not illegal to seek asylum. It is not illegal immigrant for a rejection of the application. Most who come here to seek asylum is honest and peaceful people who fled dictatorships and countries in wars and conflicts. They flee to find freedom and security.
Putting these people in a "prison" is for us absolutely unheard of.
The article was published in Dagbladet 25.08.13
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