Migration in Austria - Couverture souple

Bischof, Guenter

 
9781608011452: Migration in Austria
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1608011453 ISBN 13 : 9781608011452
Editeur : University of New Orleans Press, 2017

Synopsis

This 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 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 potential 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" (Hungarians, 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 for 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Günter Bischof is the Marshall Plan Professor of History and the Director of Center Austria at the University of New Orleans.

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Éditeur
University of New Orleans Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1608011453
ISBN 13 
9781608011452
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
280
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Personne responsable
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