Immigration to vienna and munich
- Author(s)
- Heinz Fassmann, Ursula Reeger
- Abstract
Munich and Vienna are two similar cities, but they differ in only one respect: The principles underpinning their immigration policies. The proportion of foreign workers in Vienna would have risen much more sharply were it not that many of them opted for rapid naturalization and disappeared from the statistics. In Munich-because of the German concept of citizenship - naturalization is the last step in a long process of integration. National and urban policies influence housing segregation even more strongly than they affect the labour market. The formal exclusion of the foreign resident population clearly represents a problem of democratic policy. In linking social services, housing, and political participation to Austrian citizenship, Vienna contradicts to some extent the spirit of a meritocratic society in which social rank depends on achievement and social assistance is granted according to need.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geography and Regional Research
- External organisation(s)
- Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW)
- Pages
- 273-295
- No. of pages
- 23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315186467-12
- Publication date
- 01-2019
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 507002 Population geography
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities, SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/6c3f9bf6-4bc8-4538-90f8-df212a4df83d