Butratana, K. and Trupp, Alexander (2011) Thai communities in Vienna. Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 4 (1). pp. 183-190. ISSN 1999-2521
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Abstract
This article provides a short overview on Thais in Vienna, offering some selected impressions of the second largest South-East Asian community in Austria. For a long
time immigrants have mainly been portrayed as cheap labour force and low-skilled workers who were recruited in order to counter the problem of labour shortage in
Austria (Castles & Miller, 2003; Mayer, 2010). Indeed, immigrants from all over the world have shaped the appearance and development of Vienna for centuries. In this context, not much is known about South-East Asian communities in Vienna. Official data of Statistik Austria (2010a) registered 22,551 South-East Asians in Austria, with more than half of them living in Vienna. This number includes persons who hold a South-East Asian citizenship (whether they were born in Austria or abroad) as well as
persons who were born in South-East Asia but now hold Austrian citizenship.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE) > School of Tourism and Hospitality Management |
| Depositing User: | Repo Editor |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2016 00:05 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2016 00:05 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/9496 |
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