Austria's colorful multiplicity: How migrants shape our society!

Austria's colorful multiplicity: How migrants shape our society!

Wien, Österreich - Austria has experienced a remarkable development in immigration from EU countries, in particular since joining the EU in 1995. According to the current analysis of vienna.at rose in Austria People from other EU countries considerably, especially after the east expansion of the European Union. In 2001, over 106,000 people from the new EU countries have already lived here, with a significant increase since the full opening of the labor market in 2011. The move from Romania and Bulgaria, with over 117,600 citizens of both countries, is particularly strong.

immigration and EU mobility

Mobility within the EU means that more and more EU citizens are moving to other Member States. This dynamic can also be seen in the numbers that the Federal Center for Political Education presented in a Kurzdossier : 13.7 million EU-internal migrant lived in early 2021 in a member state other than its country of origin. With 17.1 percent of the population, which has no Austrian citizen, Austria has one of the highest quotas of foreign nationals in the EU. Germany remains the main target state for migrants, followed by Spain, France and Italy.

The numbers also give an insight into the origin of the migrants. The largest group of foreign nationals in Austria comes from Germany, which reflects the existing cultural connections. These developments contribute to the fact that Austria's population structure becomes increasingly diverse, while at the same time the complexity of the social and economic issues that leads to immigration is growing.