The government (Nicole de Moor, CD&V) refuses to enforce the plan of a fair distribution of asylum seekers across all the Belgian municipalities. There was not a single issue to accomodate +70.000 Ukrainian refugees, why the government acts like this when the asylum seekers are not white and blonde?
>Without an official shelter, asylum seekers are no longer called for an important interview. This means that their asylum procedure is on hold until there is room in one of the reception centres. Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen criticizes that a ‘particularly large group is completely left to its own devices’. This mainly concerns single male asylum seekers.
>The reception crisis for asylum seekers is starting to take on increasingly grotesque proportions. Especially for single male asylum seekers. They have no longer been offered a shelter since May 2022, due to the major shortage in the shelters. And that also has consequences for their asylum procedure.
>Because these men do not have an official shelter, they are not invited for the second interview in the asylum procedure that the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGRS) conducts.
>Their asylum procedure thus comes to a standstill and will only be continued once a male asylum seeker has struggled through the long waiting list for a shelter and is no longer living on the street.
>According to competent State Secretary Nicole de Moor (CD&V), ‘it is not the case that those people are not invited by definition’, but ‘it could take a long time’
>But “people living on the street have no support and lack a social assistant. They are often very vulnerable and sometimes confused. We want to prevent psychosocial problems from influencing the asylum procedure.”
>”The root cause is the lack of shelter places and this is not being addressed. With this policy, the shelter crisis is expanding like an oil slick and the required solution is also becoming larger and more complex. A particularly large group is being left completely to its fate.”
>According to Vandenberghe of Myria, male asylum seekers upon arrival in Belgium “have no prospects of reception. The Belgian government seems to have completely abandoned the aim of treating this group with human dignity.”
>Spread shelter fairly across municipalities
>The only correct answer to the shelter crisis is to invest in more shelter places, Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen emphasizes.
>State Secretary De Moor has said several times that she is doing everything she can to expand reception capacity. Over the past two years, approximately 5,000 places have been added to the shelter. But the number of asylum applications continues to rise, which means that Fedasil cannot eliminate the reception shortage.
>According to Willekens, the key to getting out of the reception crisis has been ready for some time. He is referring to the distribution plan. That plan, which was already drawn up in 2016, describes how the number of shelter places can be fairly distributed across the Belgian municipalities.
>”The plan takes into account the income of the municipality, the number of inhabitants and the current number of reception places for asylum seekers that the municipality provides,” Willekens explains. “Based on these three data, it is calculated how many additional reception places a municipality must create to fairly distribute the number of asylum seekers. On average, this is five extra per municipality. These are not insurmountable efforts and this has largely eliminated the shortage.”
>Unfortunately, the government refuses to implement the distribution plan, says Willekens. “According to the federal government, there is already a fair distribution. But that is not correct. Ninety municipalities provide 85% of the reception places in Belgium. The government does not want to impose an obligation on the municipalities. But there is no other way out of the reception crisis.”
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The government (Nicole de Moor, CD&V) refuses to enforce the plan of a fair distribution of asylum seekers across all the Belgian municipalities. There was not a single issue to accomodate +70.000 Ukrainian refugees, why the government acts like this when the asylum seekers are not white and blonde?
>Without an official shelter, asylum seekers are no longer called for an important interview. This means that their asylum procedure is on hold until there is room in one of the reception centres. Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen criticizes that a ‘particularly large group is completely left to its own devices’. This mainly concerns single male asylum seekers.
>The reception crisis for asylum seekers is starting to take on increasingly grotesque proportions. Especially for single male asylum seekers. They have no longer been offered a shelter since May 2022, due to the major shortage in the shelters. And that also has consequences for their asylum procedure.
>Because these men do not have an official shelter, they are not invited for the second interview in the asylum procedure that the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGRS) conducts.
>Their asylum procedure thus comes to a standstill and will only be continued once a male asylum seeker has struggled through the long waiting list for a shelter and is no longer living on the street.
>According to competent State Secretary Nicole de Moor (CD&V), ‘it is not the case that those people are not invited by definition’, but ‘it could take a long time’
>But “people living on the street have no support and lack a social assistant. They are often very vulnerable and sometimes confused. We want to prevent psychosocial problems from influencing the asylum procedure.”
>”The root cause is the lack of shelter places and this is not being addressed. With this policy, the shelter crisis is expanding like an oil slick and the required solution is also becoming larger and more complex. A particularly large group is being left completely to its fate.”
>According to Vandenberghe of Myria, male asylum seekers upon arrival in Belgium “have no prospects of reception. The Belgian government seems to have completely abandoned the aim of treating this group with human dignity.”
>Spread shelter fairly across municipalities
>The only correct answer to the shelter crisis is to invest in more shelter places, Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen emphasizes.
>State Secretary De Moor has said several times that she is doing everything she can to expand reception capacity. Over the past two years, approximately 5,000 places have been added to the shelter. But the number of asylum applications continues to rise, which means that Fedasil cannot eliminate the reception shortage.
>According to Willekens, the key to getting out of the reception crisis has been ready for some time. He is referring to the distribution plan. That plan, which was already drawn up in 2016, describes how the number of shelter places can be fairly distributed across the Belgian municipalities.
>”The plan takes into account the income of the municipality, the number of inhabitants and the current number of reception places for asylum seekers that the municipality provides,” Willekens explains. “Based on these three data, it is calculated how many additional reception places a municipality must create to fairly distribute the number of asylum seekers. On average, this is five extra per municipality. These are not insurmountable efforts and this has largely eliminated the shortage.”
>Unfortunately, the government refuses to implement the distribution plan, says Willekens. “According to the federal government, there is already a fair distribution. But that is not correct. Ninety municipalities provide 85% of the reception places in Belgium. The government does not want to impose an obligation on the municipalities. But there is no other way out of the reception crisis.”
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