Long-term Irregular Staying Migrants in Austria: Practices and challenges

Original Language
English
ISBN
978-3-9519793-7-3
ISBN (PDF)
978-3-9519793-5-9
Number of Pages
52
Reference Number
PUB2021/047/R
Date of Publication

07 juin 2021

Long-term Irregular Staying Migrants in Austria: Practices and challenges

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This report has been produced by the National Contact Point Austria in the European Migration Network (EMN), contributing to EMN’s study “Responses to long-term irregularly staying migrants: practices and challenges in EU Member States and Norway”. The report deals in detail with the phenomenon of irregularly staying persons. In this context, it examines the responses and approaches taken by the competent authorities to avoid and mitigate situations of irregularity and the social consequences for the third-country nationals concerned. Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the measures taken in Austria in relation to the pandemic and irregularly staying persons are also presented. The report covers the following topics:

  1. Categories of persons staying irregularly in Austria
  2. Tolerated Stay of irregularly staying persons and measures to prevent or terminate irregular stays
  3. Rights and benefits
  4. Cooperation between the Austrian authorities
  5. Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
  • Summary 
  • 1. Introduction 
  • 2. Austrian context 
  • 3. Categories of irregularly staying persons in Austria 
  • 4. Tolerated stay of irregular staying persons and measures to prevent or end irregular stays 
  • 5. Rights and benefits 
  • 6. Cooperation between the Austrian authorities 
  • 7. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic 
  • 8. Outlook 
  • 9. Study results