Germany and UK both are European countries, but when it comes to the refugees, Germany is way more generous than the Uk. The three main differences between the refugee policies of the two countries are the number of asylum applications, financial support, and license to work. Beside these differences, the two countries have two similarities that are public involvement and security issues.
To begin with, the number of asylum applications in Germany and UK is the first difference. “In 2016, Britain received 38,517 applications for asylum (one per 1,664 people in the population), and in Germany it is 722,370 (one per 112)”, (Kirchgaessner, p.2). Germany is trying to accept more refugees as Angela Merkel made the humanitarian response to open Germany’s borders for the asylum seekers. On the other hand Theresa May said that helping refugees and providing them the rescue ships might encourage them to try the dangerous sea journey and it may increase the tragic deaths.
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The second, contrast is the financial help. “Britain is the second bilateral donor of humanitarian aids. In Britain the state gives the asylum seekers £36.95 a week and are given accommodations”, (Kirchgaessner, p.3). They have to manage all their expenses like food, clothing, transport and other things with this £36.95. Unlike Britain in Germany asylum seekers are given accommodation and €31.15 that is equal to £26.50”, (Kirchgaessner, p.3). However this amount does not cover their food. Refugees who don’t know the German language, for them fee of the German classes are also paid by the state.
Allowance to work is the third difference of the two countries. Refugees in Germany are allowed to work. They can start working after the three months of submitting their asylum applications. On the other side, UK has the strictest rules for refugees working. In Britain refugees don’t have the permission to work. They cannot work in any paid job. After twelve months they get the allowance to work only for the jobs that are in the “shortage occupations” list of UK , such as, orchestral musicians and engineers…
The first similarity of Germany and UK’s refugee policy is the public involvement. In Germany many people are willing to help refugees. They give clothes, food, and some of them help refugees by providing them shelters. In the same way, the people in UK want the government to help more the refugees who ran away from their home countries because of wars and are trying to get a peaceful life. British people said that they couldn’t let thousands of people to die trying to get to the Europe. People of both countries want the government to help refugees.
Security issue is the second similarity of Germany and UK. People of both countries want a happy and secure life. They don’t want the foreigners to become a danger for them. Germany has accepted more asylums than the Britain, so the chance of insecurity in Germany is more. Some people think that the open border policy should be stopped. They think that keeping the borders open and accepting refugees without clear identities is like taking risks.
Finally, Germany has accepted more refugees than the UK. Financial support for refugees in Germany is more than the UK. Asylum seekers in Germany are allowed to work but in UK they don’t have the permission to work. However, people of both countries are volunteer to help refugees and want a happy and peaceful life.
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