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Thai communities in Vienna
Thai-Gemeinden in Wien
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Abstract 'This article provides a short overview on Thais in Vienna, offering some selected impressions of the second largest South-East Asian community in Austria. For a long time immigrants have mainly been portrayed as cheap labor force and low-skilled workers who were recruited in order to counter the pr... view more
'This article provides a short overview on Thais in Vienna, offering some selected impressions of the second largest South-East Asian community in Austria. For a long time immigrants have mainly been portrayed as cheap labor force and low-skilled workers who were recruited in order to counter the problem of labor shortage in Austria (Castles & Miller, 2003; Mayer, 2010). Indeed, immigrants from all over the world have shaped the appearance and development of Vienna for centuries. In this context, not much is known about South-East Asian communities in Vienna. Official data of Statistik Austria (2010a) registered 22,551 South-East Asians in Austria, with more than half of them living in Vienna. This number includes persons who hold a South-East Asian citizenship (whether they were born in Austria or abroad) as well as persons who were born in South-East Asia but now hold Austrian citizenship.' (extract)... view less
Keywords
Vienna; Austria; social situation; alien; Asia; migrant; diaspora; migration; Thailand; Southeast Asia; immigration; developing country
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Method
descriptive study
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
Page/Pages
p. 183-190
Journal
ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 4 (2011) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4232/10.ASEAS-4.1-14
ISSN
1999-253X
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works