I agree that refugees who only need protection for a short period of time should return home afterwards and only really need shelter here. But other refugees won't be able to return to their homeland for much longer.

At some point in time the government has to switch from just sheltering a refugee to helping them integrate into society.

In my opinion, the government should make this switch rather early, in the interest of facilitating integration over keeping immigration numbers low. I would rather have more immigrants with a higher percentage of them being well integrated than having fewer immigrants but more of them being badly integrated.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think the time should rather be high to protect the integrity and purpose of the refugee system both to protect it from the harmful image of just another way of migration and to ensure it is not used as such. Another way is to make the refugee system more strict as for who counts as a refugee and being more lenient about working for those accepted, which would also be okay solution, but it still harms the actual function of the system imo. Integration is absolutely an important goal for those who end up staying, but there's other ways of doing that than just work, which is prone to abuse. And in the end it's something that has to be balanced with all of the goals. That's why I think working should be a rather exception for those who have been in the destination country for a long time without a clear path for returning than a rule.