SPD on migration and integration

The SPD wants to expand special support for refugee women, above all those who have experienced violence. This includes mobile psychosocial consultations in shelters, information gathered in one place online and backing for self-help organizations.

Refugee women need special help. That is what the SPD says. It wants to strengthen consultation hours in shelters. Women should easily find information about their rights. Public offices should pay more attention to women's needs.

According to the platform, women need access to information about their rights after fleeing, among other things. As one possible route, the SPD names an accessible website that brings together statewide help for refugee women affected by violence. Self-help organizations that look after these women are to receive support. The responsible authorities are to be better equipped and made more aware of gender-specific concerns.

The SPD wants to declare Schleswig-Holstein a safe harbor in its first year in government and set up a flexible state admission program for refugees. Special programs for women and girls from conflict areas are to be added. It wants to show that the state is willing and able to take in people who are fleeing.

The SPD wants to take in more people who are fleeing. The state should declare itself a safe harbor. The state should have its own admission program. There should be special programs for women and girls from war zones.

The state program is to run alongside resettlement by the UN refugee agency. It targets people in need at the EU's external borders, within the EU, and in countries neighboring war zones. Schleswig-Holstein is to be able to act quickly and with little red tape. Women and girls are said to face particular dangers in military conflicts. In addition, counseling services for migration, return, anti-discrimination, and psychosocial support are to get permanent state funding.

The SPD wants to end deportation detention in the state and replace it with what it calls a humane return policy. Deportations to countries with armed conflicts are to be banned for as long as those conflicts last. Under the platform, no one seeking protection who has committed no crime should be detained.

Some people must leave Germany and are locked up first. The SPD wants to end this detention in the state. Nobody should be sent back to a country at war. Pregnant women should also be allowed to stay.

The deportation detention facility is to close as soon as possible. A deportation moratorium is to prohibit returns to states with armed conflicts while they continue. The SPD also wants to push for a ban on deporting pregnant women. Gender-specific grounds for flight, such as the threat of forced marriage, are to carry more weight in asylum procedures, based on the Istanbul Convention. Refugee children and teenagers are not to live in shared accommodation centers and are to attend a public school right away.

The SPD wants to use state money to pay for places in integration and job-related language courses for people who are not eligible under federal rules. This is meant to let newcomers learn German without waiting for months. In addition, the share of people with a migration background in the state's public service is to rise by 2030.

Some newcomers may not take a federal German course. The SPD wants the state to pay for places for them. There should be more courses in rural areas and online. More people with a migration background should work for the state.

Course structures in rural areas are to be strengthened together with providers and supplemented by online offerings. The state is to actively support municipalities with integration. An SPD-led government wants to revive the Diversity Plan for Integration and set clear targets and measures for it. Together with municipalities and counseling services, a "one-step" strategy is also to be developed as a state model.

The SPD wants a campaign to encourage more people to become citizens. In its view, citizenship means equal participation in politics and society and strengthens cohesion. It also commits to the goal of voting rights for all, because not everyone can be naturalized.

The SPD wants more people to get a German passport. A campaign should promote this. With a passport, people can take part in all decisions. The SPD also wants everyone living here to be allowed to vote.

The campaign is to be transparent and motivating. According to the platform, citizenship also involves thorough information about consumer rights. Naturalization is said to lower everyday barriers considerably and show that someone has arrived in society. The SPD names voting rights for all as a goal because naturalization remains closed to some residents.