legal and social conditions for asylum seekers and refugees in ...

Work
No meals provided
1 person FRF 1,425 EUR 217.2
2 persons FRF 1,950 EUR 297.2
3 persons FRF 2,340 EUR 356.7
4 persons FRF 3,000 EUR 457.3
5 persons FRF 3,675 EUR 560.2
6 persons FRF 4,320 EUR 658.5
Each additional person FRF 690 EUR 105.1
Help in kind will no more be admitted but may be available from the French Red Cross and other
agencies.
In accordance with a ministerial circular of 26 September 1991, asylum seekers have no access
to the labour market, regardless of whether they are accommodated in a CADA or not.
As an exception, Kosovo Albanians under temporary protection who have applied for asylum are
allowed to work (see “Social Conditions for Persons under Temporary Protection” below).
Vocational training
Since 1991, asylum seekers are no longer allowed to work and are consequently excluded from
vocational training programmes.
Language tuition
Asylum seekers are not entitled to any state-financed integration programmes or French
language courses. However, they can benefit from free lessons given by the municipality or, most
often, by various national or local non-governmental agencies, without any public funding. Such
French language courses are available in almost all large or medium-sized towns.
School attendance
Child care
School attendance is compulsory from the ages of 6 to 16 for all children living in France,
independently of their administrative or legal status. Foreign children attend the same schools as
French children.
Special “adaptation classes” for the children of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers who do
not speak French are sometimes organised within schools by the Ministry of Education. As an
exception, the FTDA centre in Créteil has set up a primary school class on its premises, with a
teacher on secondment from the Ministry of Education.
There are no specific measures for child care except in the FTDA centre (see “Accommodation”
above).
Female asylum seekers
Female asylum seekers are not entitled to any specific measures, with the exception of a priority
right of access to the CADAs.
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