Should integration programmes be compulsory?
A recognised refugee settles in your town.
- Support offered, with no obligation
- Help and support, with commitments on both sides
- Compulsory language courses and integration programme, with sanctions
What's at stake: The debate is about the best lever for integration: freely accepted support, or obligations backed by sanctions.
The left's argument
Refugees have often lived through trauma: help works better than coercion.
The centre's argument
Real help, in exchange for commitments on both sides such as learning the language.
The right's argument
Speaking the language and knowing the rules is essential: this programme must be required.
And you, where do you stand?
Answer 30 situations like this one and find out where you stand, topic by topic.