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Since the second world war, Austria’s peculiar position with regard to international migration has been characterised by six distinctive stages, consisting of (i) an inflow of a large number of ethnic Germans in the immediate postwar period; (ii) three major waves of refugees from Hungary in 1956/57, Czechoslovakia in 1968/69 and from Poland in 1981/82; (iii) substantial labour migration of Austrians to Germany and Switzerland; (iv) the recruitment of foreign workers from Yugoslavia and Turkey since the mid-1960s; (v) the stabilisation of the resident foreign population in the 1980s at a level of 4 per cent of the total population, after waves of remigration and family reunification; (vi) the marked increase of labour and refugee immigration from Central and Eastern Europe after the 1989 revolutions and the Yugoslavian crisis.
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Baubock, R. (1994). Austria. In: Ardittis, S. (eds) The Politics of East-West Migration. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23352-6_11
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