Diakonie presents a new integration package: key to labor market integration!

Diakonie presents a new integration package: key to labor market integration!

Deutschland - On May 27, 2025, the Diakonie presents a comprehensive integration package to improve labor market integration, which is intended in response to the challenges of the shortage of labor and the need for integration of migrants. At a time when Germany is fighting with a growing new immigration, Diakonie, headed by director Maria Katharina Moser, shows how important clear rules and less bureaucracy are for integration. "The need to provide comprehensive support is indispensable," emphasizes Moser.

The integration package includes several key elements that aim to facilitate the integration of asylum seekers and migrants into the labor market. This includes a competence check for recording skills and an individual integration plan, which is supported by accompanying an integration coach. In addition, access to education and training will be ensured for asylum seekers regardless of your origin or presumability from the first day. This initiative could reduce the challenge of high unemployment among migrants, which, according to reports from the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, are twice affected as people without a migration background.

key aspects of the integration package

• Abolition of employment approval and restrictive earnings limits.
• Legal claim to individual integration services and advice.
• Extended options for applying for a red and white-red card, regardless of protection status.
• Obligation to train for refugee young people and young adults during the asylum procedure.
• Creation of affordable living space and strengthening the integration living space.
• simplification of the nostrification of foreign qualifications.

These suggestions are in line with the goals of German integration policy, which aims at the equal participation in working life. The Federal Government has launched various programs since 2015 to promote the labor market integration of migrants. These include the program "Integration through Qualification" (IQ), which includes advice centers for foreign professional qualifications, and regional networks to support asylum seekers and recognized refugees.

The current integrative measures are part of a comprehensive approach that has become more important since the late 1990s. Since then, integration has been seen as a task as a whole in which various actors in politics, the authorities and society are required. The integration process takes place at the federal, state and municipal level and requires efforts in different political fields.

social context and challenges

Despite the progress, the challenge remains considerable. In 2018, around 20.8 million people with a migration background lived in Germany, which corresponds to about a quarter of the total population. The integration of migrants continues to make language difficulties, lower qualifications and unknown degrees. Targeted measures are required here to promote equal participation in working life and to reduce discrimination.

The debates about racism and discrimination are present in German society, which underlines the need for an active integration policy. Integration is increasingly understood as an interactive process that includes all social actors and enables equal opportunities for everyone. In view of the social challenges, the rapid implementation of these integration measures is of crucial importance in order to promote social cohesion and to relieve the social system.

Overall, the Diakonie integration package shows the potential to actively contribute to improving labor market integration. This not only takes into account the individual situation of migrants, but also a crucial step towards a more inclusive society.

For further information on the specific measures of the Federal Government to integrate migrants and their descendants, the detailed reports of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs here href = "https://www.bpb.de/themen/migration-integration/regionalprofile/deutschland/344036/integration-und-integration spolitics-in-deutschland/"> here .