Von Metternich bis EU Beitritt: Reichsfremde, Staatsfremde und Drittausländer, Immigration und Einwanderungspolitik in Österreich

Abstract

This longitudinal survey provides an overview of 150 years of migration and labor policy in Austria, from the rule of Imperial Chancellor Klemens von Metternich to the country’s accession to the European Union in 1995. Taking the publication of the first in-depth analysis of Austrian labor migration policy in 1842 (Johann Vesque von Püttlingen, Die gesetzliche Behandlung der Ausländer in Österreich) as a point of departure, this study is based on a comprehensive overview of original national, regional, commercial, and labor union archives, as well as an exhaustive review of secondary literature in German and English. By examining Austria’s experience with labor migration as an authoritarian regime, a fascist dictatorship, an occupied country, during two periods of republican rule and after joining the EU, the continuities and transitions in its social, economic, political, and cultural structure are presented using a comparative historical approach.

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