More than 60 migrants have already benefited from information in the fresh Centre for the Integration of Foreigners in Ostrów Wielkopolski, opened in early July at 35a Kaliska Street. It is simply a sign that local migration infrastructure rapidly becomes a permanent part of the city, and the state must guarantee that integration means order, Polish language and legal work, not a non-reflective tamer of mass migration.
The center's been moving for weeks.
As reported Radio Poznań, more than 60 migrants have already benefited from information at the Centre for the Integration of Foreigners in Ostrów Wielkopolski. The facility was opened at the beginning of July in downtown, at 1 of the main streets leading to the Old Town. So it is not hidden on the outskirts. On the contrary, it is to be a visible part of urban infrastructure.
According to local accounts, the most crucial issues are authoritative matters: the extension of the legalisation of work and residence, assistance with the ruling on disability and issues of kid education. The aid is mainly utilized by Ukrainian citizens, but there are besides people from Belarus, Nigeria, Philippines, Guinea, Colombia, Venezuela and Canada. This list itself shows that we are no longer just talking about war aid for neighbours from across the east border.
Sixth centre in Wielkopolska
The Ostrowska facility operates at 35a Kaliska Street. WLKP24.info portal informs at the beginning that it is the sixth specified centre in the voivodship, after Poznań, Lesznie, Pile, Konin and Kalisz. We wrote earlier that migration reached the Polish province, and Ostrów became an example of a change that was inactive late associated mainly with large agglomerations.
The authoritative communication of the Regional Social Policy Centre in Poznań shows that the Centre functions as part of the task Integration and comprehensive support of third-country nationals in Wielkopolska. The task is financed by EU funds, the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund. task partner, Vox Humana Association, reports that the task runs from 1 March 2025 to 30 June 2029.
That's important. Since money, procedures and staff come from EU programmes, Poles have the right to ask who sets the objectives of this policy and how its effects are measured. The word “integration” itself does not do anything. For the national state, it is crucial to answer the simple question: whether the foreigner respects Polish law, works legally, learns the language and does not make parallel communities alongside the Polish society.
The aid cannot replace State policy
The information provided to Radio Poznań by Michał Brożyński from ROPS shows that at the turn of September and October, the centre is expected to receive free legal, intellectual and professional consultations. Almost half of those supported were enrolled in general or sectoral Polish courses. Specialist language includes construction, logistics and pedagogy.
The Polish language course is the right direction. Without language, there is no real integration. There's only administrative alien maintenance. Legal assistance and professional advice can besides make sense if they service legal work, autonomy and transparency towards the state. The problem starts erstwhile the migration tool is made into a tool for its constant expansion.
Migration policy cannot be conducted in the language of brochures and projects. It must be carried out in a language of work for the community. The Polish payer has the right to know how much the full strategy costs, who uses it, what the results are and what control mechanisms the state uses. Without this integration turns into a convenient slogan for officials and organisations, not a real condition for social security.
Conditions alternatively of naivety
In the dispute about migration, the right should be clear: helping a man to stay and work is not a problem in itself. The problem is simply a policy that first opens up successive flows of inflow, and then asks if local communities are ready for this. Ostrów Wielkopolski is not an abstraction on the map. It is simply a circumstantial city, schools, clinics, labour marketplace and residents who have the right to take precedence in their own country.
Therefore, a tough regulation is needed: no integration without an assimilation minimum. Polish language, legal work, respect for the law, deficiency of privileges over citizens and effective expulsion of those who violate public order. This thread returns in the debate about whether Poland needs deportation service alternatively of multiculti policy.
The Ostrów centre will most likely be presented as local aid and authoritative normality. However, reducing the substance to respective desks, forms and Polish language courses would be a mistake. It is at stake whether Poland will find the rules for accepting foreigners itself, or whether it will only execute a soft migration policy written in Brussels and distributed by regional projects.
Help may be needed. Naïve is harmful. The national state has a work to see the difference.
Source: Radio Poznań, Regional Social Policy Centre in Poznań, WLKP24.info, Vox Humana Association.
Source: Radio Poznań
