Migration in Austria

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bischof, Guenter, 1953- editor.

Rupnow, Dirk, 1972- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Austria--Emigration and immigration.

Austria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300)

Place of Publication:

innsbruck university press 2017

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

The interdisciplinary volume offers methodologically innovative approaches to Austria's coping with issues of migration past and present. These essays show Austria's long history as a migration country. Austrians themselves have been on the move for the past 150 years to find new homes and build better lives. After the World War II the economy improved and prosperity set in, so Austrians tended to stay at home. Austria's growing prosperity made the country attractive to immigrants. After the war, tens of thousands of "ethnic Germans" expelled from Eastern Europe settled in Austria. Starting in the 1950s "victims of the Cold War" (Hungary, Czechs and Slovaks) began looking for political asylum in Austria. Since the 1960s Austria has been recruiting a growing number of "guest workers" from Turkey and Yugoslavia to make up the labor missing in the industrial and service economies. Recently, refugees from the arc of crisis from Afghanistan to Syria to Somalia have braved perilous journeys to build new lives in a more peaceful and prosperous Europe.

Contents:

I. Introduction

II. From the late Habsburg Empire to World War II

III. Post-World War II

IV. The "Refugee crisis" today and its reflection in society and the arts.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

1-60801-151-8

OCLC:

1154277163