Question 1139 — foreigners

Summary

Ms. Emmanuelle Ménard draws the attention of the Minister of State, Minister of the Interior, to the failure of teaching the French language to migrants. The integration and acculturation of immigrants in France are two real issues and have been this for decades. Mr. Roger Karoutchi, senator “Les Républicains”, recently published a report according to which “compulsory linguistic and civic training for foreigners new to France is a complete failure! ". The successive reforms in this area are, according to him, a simple posture: “We have invented, he says, an alibi training which turns against the imperative of successful integration”. However, with 47 million euros of budget allocated in 2017, we are entitled to demand convincing results. In 2016, this program benefited 26,000 foreigners who, instead of receiving 400 hours of planned courses, received 200. Those who were supposed to benefit from 240 hours of teaching had to settle for 148 hours. The result is clear: "the minimum required level (level A1) is only acquired by half of the beneficiaries of the 200-hour course, even though it constitutes a more than rudimentary linguistic level, equivalent to the level of a primary school student" explains Mr. Roger Karoutchi. Plus still seriously, these training courses are hardly taken seriously since they are not really taken into account when issuing a residence permit. In 80% of cases, the evaluation of the training has no impact on the issuance of residence permits. Mr. Karoutchi's report specifies that "only the issuance of the resident card (valid for ten years and automatically renewable) must actually be subject to the immigrant achieving an A2 level (more demanding), from March 2018”. As for the content of this training, there is no doubt that it is unfortunately insufficient. Scrolling through a few slides that revisit 2,000 years of French history does not allow the State to accomplish one of its missions: integrating legal immigrants into the Nation. A real waste when this integration - not to mention assimilation - should be the center of all its attention! She asks him so what measures he intends to take to ensure that this situation - in short, this failure - does not persist.

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