Reception Policies, Practices & Responses: AUSTRIA Country Report
Ivan Josipovic, Ursula Reeger | Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW)
This report deals with the reception of asylum seekers in Austria between 2011 and 2019. In the federal Austrian system, competences in the area of reception are divided between the federal government, which is responsible for persons during their early asylum application phase, and the nine provinces which are responsible for providing care and housing during the substantive asylum procedure. During the so-called “refugee crisis” of 2015, the shortage of reception facilities led to a series of conflicts between different tiers of government involved in the regulation of asylum seeker distribution and housing. Following the introduction of a federal constitutional law, stipulating an obligatory admission quota for all municipalities, the number of accommodations increased. Nonetheless, the distribution across all provinces remains uneven, with Vienna admitting the relatively largest share. As the number of new arrivals decreased from 2016 onwards and as applicants from 2015 and 2016 received final decisions on their asylum cases, newly created small scale facilities had to close down.
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