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To create a safer, more inclusive environment for refugees and asylees, it is incumbent
upon Germany’s federal government and community-based organizations to build effective,
well-informed policy and strengthen Germany’s community response to address the vulnerabilities
refugees and asylees face daily. The current policies in place do not adequately address
the underlying vulnerabilities that refugees and asylees face within Germany, such
as access to formal job markets, safe housing, social acceptance, security, etc. This
results in a heightened precarity of refugees and asylees, leaving them vulnerable
to discrimination, violence, and human trafficking. Policy that is aimed at the underlying
causes of precarity is crucial. Providing information to refugees and asylees about
their rights within Germany will increase their ability to self-advocate. Federal
actors can expand formal trainings for government officials to include understanding
human trafficking in the context of a refugee’s and asylee’s situation, thus, encouraging
an inclusive and accurate approach to combat human trafficking from a top down perspective.
These federal and state actors can also create more space for a community response
to human trafficking of refugees and asylees, by relaxing its control of nonprofits,
community-based organizations, and community service organizations. By expanding the
influence of community-based organizations through diversifying partnerships and funders,
community-based organizations can work outside of the federal sphere, providing a
bottom up approach to human trafficking. Implementing and building upon these policy
recommendations allows Germany to begin to evaluate its border policies’ role in creating
precarity for refugees and asylees and collectively work towards a humanitarian approach
to border control.
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