Integration Report 2019: Asylum Applications Decline, Immigration Persists

More+Work & Careers ♦ Published: September 5, 2019; 09:42 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Expert Council on Integration chaired by Prof. Dr. Katharina Pabel presented Austria's ninth Integration Report. The report deals with integration monitoring and the perspectives of integration. It covers topics such as immigration, asylum, residence, school, apprenticeship, adult education, labour market, social issues, dealing with different gender roles, integration of young people, family reunification, marriage migration and dealing with religious diversity. Read the key findings here.

In terms of the proportion of immigrants (1st generation) in a country, Austria ranks third in the EU in relation to the total population. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / / Bwag [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)]

The Integration Report 2019 prepared by the Expert Council on Integration provides a detailed overview of integration in Austria for the ninth time this year.

In this year's report, the Expert Council contextualises current developments in the field of integration, for the first time also in comparison to the previous year.

The main focuses of the Integration Report 2019…