Indicator history

There has been a lot of criticism on the national integration strategy. Mainly, it aims at the fact that the National Integration Plan does not directly implement specific measures. In addition, the recently presented National Action Plan, which aims at phrasing specific, obligatory and testable integration goals, is often criticised by the opposition and by welfare and migrant organisations as being non-legally binding and thus ineffective.
With regard to the integration courses, the results of an evaluation study conducted by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (2011) indicated that integration courses are generally effective: They have a great and sustainable impact on the German language proficiency, on the frequency of contacts with Germans and on the employment situation.
By contrast, there is also criticism, for instance by integration course providers relating to the financing of the courses.

Sources:

Friedrich Heckmann: 50 Jahre Integrationspolitik in Deutschland? efms paper 2010-5, p. 8f.
http://www.efms.uni-bamberg.de/pdf/efms%20paper%202010-5.pdf

Germany, Federal Government (October 2008): Nationaler Integrationsplan – Erster Fortschrittsbericht.
http://www.bundesregierung.de/Content/DE/Publikation/IB/Anlagen/nationaler-integrationsplan-fortschrittsbericht.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

Germany, Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (December 2011): Das Integrationspanel – Ergebnisse einer Längsschnittstudie zur Wirksamkeit und Nachhaltigkeit von Integrationskursen.
http://www.bamf.de/SharedDocs/Anlagen/DE/Publikationen/Forschungsberichte/fb11-integrationspanel.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

MIGAZIN / Dağdelen, Sevim (13.09.2011): Populistische Integrationspolitik nach Kassenlage. http://www.migazin.de/2011/09/13/populistische-integrationspolitik-nach-kassenlage/

Migration und Bevölkerung (2008): Deutschland: Dritter Integrationsgipfel. Ausgabe 9, November 2008, p.1f.
http://www.migration-info.de/migration_und_bevoelkerung/archiv/ausgaben/ausgabe0809.pdf