Europeans have-- to a great degree--recognized the fact that à ©migrà ©s have rights. However, the recent blockade of foreign-born spouses by the Rhine Main Integration and Immigration offices is very contradictory to the goals of multicultural integration.
http://www.efms.uni-bamberg.de/pdf/NESEducationIntegrationMigrants.pdf
I have lived in lands, like Kuwait and the UAE, where often millions of workers are employed with little chance that their spouse can join them--even after they have been in those lands for five to ten years. This is a losing approach to integration.
Yet, in recent months I have run into several German citizens in the Rhine Main region who have already been awaiting their spouses (or the children of their spouses) after three years or more of awaiting and constantly facing bureaucratic blockades. Moreover, in a town like Wiesbaden, one runs into dozens of foreigners whose spouse's arrival is blockaded by the same bureaucratic mistreatment---and for decades at a time in some cases of injustice.
Such policies are so anti-family that one might be surprised to learn that Germany has a Ministry of Family Affairs to aid parents and children in this society.
In summary, if an addicted gambler, like Dostoyevsky, could find his luck in Germany, why can't Germans (fearing the foreign) do more to integrate themselves-- and others. This part of the world has almost always been a melting pot.
Let's all work on being more multicultural in 2010 and onwards.
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