SPD on migration and integration

The SPD wants to expand German-language support while also extending heritage-language teaching under the state's responsibility. Greek and Turkish are to count at secondary schools as foreign languages relevant for moving up a grade. Intensive classes are again to have no more than twelve children.

The SPD wants more help with learning German. More teachers should be able to teach German as a second language. Children should also be able to learn their family's language at school. Greek and Turkish should count as foreign languages. Classes for newly arrived children should get smaller.

The program names good German skills as the basis for integration, educational success and participation. Additional teachers are to be trained in German as a second and foreign language. The smaller size of intensive classes is meant to enable fast learning and give teachers more room for individual support.

The SPD wants a state admission program for refugees from crisis regions and better conditions for refugees in Hesse. They are to move into their own homes quickly and live independently. Municipalities are to get more support from the state for housing them.

The SPD wants Hesse to take in people from crisis regions. Refugees should get their own home quickly. Children should go to school right away. The state should help towns and cities with housing.

Binding statewide minimum and violence-protection standards are to apply to reception centers and shared housing, such as lockable bedrooms. Children in reception centers are to get schooling and daycare places right away, and childcare is to be offered alongside language and integration courses. Migration counseling and psychotherapy services are to be expanded, with an additional psychosocial center in eastern Hesse. The state wants to provide its own buildings, fund housing placement services and regularly adjust the lump sums paid to municipalities so that sports and cultural halls are not occupied for long. The residence of refugee students, researchers and trainees is to be secured, and foreign qualifications are to be recognized faster.

The SPD wants a right to free integration and language courses for EU citizens and people with a migration background as well. It sees this as a precondition for participation in society. Simpler official language and more migration counseling are also planned.

The SPD wants free language courses for more people. People from other EU countries should also have a right to them. There should be childcare during the courses. Public offices should write in simpler language. There should be more counseling for immigrants.

The entitlement to free integration and language courses is to be extended to EU nationals and people with a migration background. Childcare is to be ensured during the courses. The SPD wants to push for easy-to-understand official language and provide simple multilingual help for filling out forms. Migration counseling is to be expanded and equipped according to need.