Refugees

Nearly 2,000 Iraqis since the fall of voluntarily returning home

Unhappy with Germany: Almost 2,000 Iraqis should since last autumn again leave Leningrad. Meanwhile, the situation in the Erstaufnahmeeinrichtungen due to the lower Flüchtlingszahlen to relax a bit.

The Check-in counter of the Iraqi Airways at the airport Berlin Tegel

Since September 1970 for Germany who had fled Iraqis, the Federal Republic of freiweillig to leave it again. The reported the “Welt am Sonntag”, citing a report by the “Joint analysis and Strategiezentrums illegal Migration” by German authorities (QASIM), the confidential is stamped, and from this month comes. The reasons for the departure were interviewed, gave Iraqis therefore, that the promise of Traffickers was not met.

“Often it was the dissatisfaction with housing, lack of employment opportunities and the resulting financial Situation, as well as the slow pace of the Processing of the asylum application to be expressed”, cites the “doublet” from the report. But also, for family reasons, such as an upcoming wedding in the home, be have been reported.

A positive notice, negative experiences

The airports of Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Munich recorded since the autumn of last year, a significant increase in the voluntary Leave of Iraqis. They returned, usually with the scheduled flights of Iraqi Airways back.

“Often, when leaving the application for asylum is withdrawn,” it says in the QASIM-paper according to the newspaper. It ended with the forecast: “the dissatisfaction of The migrants could also lead to a continued Iraqi citizens voluntarily to the Federal Republic of Germany to leave.”

Currently received 88 percent of Iraqis have a positive opinion as asylum seekers, reports the newspaper. 2015 be more than 121.000 Iraqis in the provinces accommodated. So was the Iraq to Syria, and Afghanistan nationwide on the third place in the Hauptherkunftsländer of Asylantragstellern.

Types of accommodation in many places half empty

Meanwhile has due to the decline in the Flüchtlingszahlen in the Winter, the situation in the Erstaufnahmeeinrichtungen relaxed: In several States are not even half occupied, reports the “world on Sunday”. This was a survey with the competent ministries. In Saxony, therefore, only 25 percent of the seats used. In Thuringia is the load at 33 percent, in North Rhine-Westphalia at 40, and in Schleswig-Holstein, at 46 percent.

Construction of a Refugee in Hamburg, Germany (file picture)

Other countries reported, however, that their capacity is still almost fully utilized, reported the “Welt am Sonntag”. These included Hamburg, Bremen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Berlin and Saxony-Anhalt.

Expected to increase

Saxony Ministry of the interior reported the “Welt am Sonntag”, the number of newcomers into the state’s facilities was recently declined significantly, but also to an allocation of the Refugees to the municipalities lie. Because the exact development of the refugee crisis is hardly predicted can be, currently, around 20,000 Erstaufnahmeplätze in Saxony you will first get remain.

Lower Saxony registered since the beginning of the year every day, around 390 asylum-seekers, in November, there were still 1900. Here, however, are the capacities to 81 percent capacity. Also from the Integrationsministerium in Rhineland-Palatinate, where the Erstaufnahmeeinrichtungen currently to 63 per cent are occupied, it is said that the number of refugees through the cold Season “decreased considerably”.

Most countries prepare themselves according to the “doublet”, a significant increase in the number of refugees in the spring, ten of them want to even more places. A reduction was in no country planned.

stu/ACE (afp, dpa, kna)