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OPINION. The controversial high school law was an attempt to solve a desperate situation. Among the just over 163,000 people who in the autumn of 2015 sought a safe and free life in Sweden were some 35,000 children or young people who were classified as so-called unaccompanied minors.
By stipulating a residence permit and requiring full upper secondary education and permanent employment or employment for at least two years and six months after the student, most unaccompanied minors could stay. Meanwhile, temporary residence permits would apply.
The proposal itself was a compromise and a humanitarian emergency solution, as a blanket amnesty was deemed too politically sensitive and too large a deviation from the rules of current immigration policy. But only the fact that a high school team was formed for a certain group of refugees and migrants opened up exceptions and special treatment. It should be indicative in the future.
And then came the pandemic. It is obvious that the very foundations of the Upper Secondary Education Law have been eroded, given that the job market and soon the economy are completely different than when the law was enacted. The requirements that were once established are today much more difficult to meet. The labor market is and is expected to continue to be unstable in the future due to the economic consequences of the pandemic. Add to this that any relief in the Upper Secondary Schools Act alone will possibly be introduced no earlier than mid-2021.
In Gothenburg, the red-green-pink, that is, the Left Party, the Green Party and the Feminist Initiative, have presented an initiative for the municipality to employ unaccompanied minors as a way to save them from deportation in the event . The proposal applies to both municipal administrations and city businesses and is taken from Halmstad, controlled by the alliance.
Since last fall, the municipality has clarified its work routines in order to shed light on the resource that unaccompanied minors with full training constitute. The red-green-pink claims that his proposal “to a large extent” should be based on how Halmstad worked: in the municipality of Halland, there has been no attempt to create sour cream or create entirely new jobs just for unaccompanied minors . Eligible individuals who have already worked part-time in home care and who have completed or completed their training as nursing assistants, have been offered existing or vacant positions where there was no preferential right under the Nursing Act. job protection.
Just as Swedish companies, municipalities and regions should not be punished for a global pandemic that throws much of what we have taken for granted, neither should unaccompanied minors be punished by the conditions to meet the requirements that are they impose on them that they change drastically and inexorably.
It is a direct waste of capital to deport people in whom large educational resources have been invested. Only Sweden has Swedish skills kickbacks, which is a special Swedish paradigm in not tapping into human capital and enterprising people who want to contribute to Swedish society.
Unaccompanied minors cannot be the only group in society for which no special rules or exceptions are created when virtually all other sectors of society have received support, relief and forgiveness due to the pandemic.
That the red-green-pink in Gothenburg wants to implement bourgeois politics is only to applaud.
Csaba Bene Perlenberg is a freelance columnist on the management side of GT.
