Integration Advisory Board
Aliens Advisory Council - in some cities also the Aliens Council (partially renamed), Integrationsrat or Integrationsbeirat - is an umbrella term for various German committees and bodies that have the legal task of representing the interests of foreign residents in the municipalities and municipal associations , especially at the municipal level . In addition, the advisory councils for foreigners advise the organs of the municipality on all matters affecting foreign residents.
The first advisory councils for foreigners were formed in 1971 by municipal resolutions as the answer to the increasing number of foreign residents permanently living in the municipalities. The regulations for the formation of advisory councils for foreigners and their tasks and rights are different in Germany according to the respective municipal code of federal states to federal states . The introduction of the advisory councils for foreigners is a result of the growing legal and actual integration of the population living in Germany. The task of forming local councils for foreigners is assigned to the municipalities as a concrete formulation of local self-administration by state law. The foreigners living in Germany should be able to participate in the local decision-making processes through the advisory council for foreigners.
As a rule, foreigners of legal age who have lived in the municipality for at least three or six months are entitled to vote and can be elected . Germans who have acquired German citizenship through naturalization can also be elected, but not entitled to vote. This means that EU foreigners and former foreigners can be represented in the general municipal bodies as well as in the advisory boards for foreigners.
In the Federal Immigration and Integration Council (BZI), formerly the Federal Foreigners Advisory Council , the contact person for the government bodies at the federal level, the state working groups of the municipal foreigners advisory councils and foreigners representatives are united. He currently represents around 400 advisory councils for foreigners from all federal states except Berlin, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.
Advisory board for foreigners by federal state
Special case for EU foreigners
The citizens of the EU in the individual member states have the active and passive right to vote to the organs of the municipality in accordance with the applicable local authority law . This means that EU foreigners have a "double representation" at the municipal level: they can influence the municipal bodies through the municipal elections and also influence municipal decisions through the foreigners' advisory council. This also applies to other advisory boards such as B. a senior citizens' council . Due to the advisory board's purely advisory role, this is not viewed critically in political science.
Controversy
Critics complain that there are often problems with foreigners 'extremism in foreigners' councils. Criticism of problematic list candidates and representatives is also taboo for those who themselves reject racist and anti-democratic sentiments. In January 2011, for example, it was reported that there were representatives in the Foreigners' Advisory Council of the City of Frankfurt am Main (KAV) who belonged to the right-wing extremist Turkish Gray Wolves . In Wiesbaden , Wetzlar and Asslar , too, the election of “gray wolves” is said to have taken place in the advisory councils for foreigners. It was only through media reports that people in Hessen became aware of the topic. In 2010, there was election manipulation in the election of the Integration Council in Essen. Immediately before the new election in November 2011, a resolution against the Gray Wolves failed due to the majority faction, which was able to increase its result from 31.0% to 48.4% with a 6% turnout (2010: 13.6%). In Mönchengladbach, the local Ülkü Ocak (Idealist Association) of the ADÜTDF , the Türk Kültür Derneği (Turkish Cultural Association Mönchengladbach) succeeded in being elected to the Integration Council as one of six founding members of the Turkish-German Integration Association (TDIV) list in 2010 and 2014 without that the city administration or a council group even commented on it. The Millî Görüş there TDIV co-founder.
See also
- Voting and voting rights for foreigners
- Bavarian Integration Council
- Federal Advisory Council for Integration
- Municipal foreign representation in Frankfurt a. M.
literature
- Gerhard Bennemann, Frank Brodbeck, Uwe Daneke, Rudolf Beinlich, Arnulf Simon, Ernst Meiss, Sven Teschke, Walter Unger, Stefan Zahradnik, Michael Borchmann, Wolfgang Schön, Jürgen Dieter: Local Constitutional Law Hessen , 1999 - here: Comments on §§ 84– 88, ISBN 3-8293-0222-3 .
- Michael Plackert: The Foreigners Advisory Council - A contemporary form of political participation? In: Verwaltungsrundschau (VR). Journal for administration in practice and science . 53rd year, 2007, ISSN 0342-5592 , pp. 80-85.
Web links
- Self-description of the Federal Immigration and Integration Council ( memento from 7 July 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ From the Foreigners Advisory Council to the Integration Committee: [1]
- ↑ § 86 HGO - Election and legal status of the members
- ↑ bundesauslaenderbeirat.de: Members ( memento of July 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) , accessed on May 5, 2011
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.bremer-rat-fuer-integration.de/
- ↑ z. B. Joachim Detjen: “Democracy in the community”, page 177 ( memento of the original from October 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.1 MB)
- ↑ Extremism: Gray Wolf in Multi-Cultural Fur ( Memento from June 13, 2011 in the web archive archive.today ) hr-online.de, January 18, 2011
- ^ Confusion about manipulation in the Essen Integration Council derwesten.de, August 16, 2010
- ↑ Integration Council is a discontinued model derwesten.de, November 22, 2001
- ^ Result of the repeat election to the Essen Integration Council 2011 essen.de
- ↑ Result of the election to the Integration Council in Essen 2010 ( memento of the original from June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 323 kB) essen.de
