Corinna Verena Goto: Human Insecurity and Migration in the Austrian Setting

Following points of the MIPEX are of special interest for this paper: security of the status of the long-term residence strand questions how easily a person can lose his/her legal status of residing in a country without being pushed into illegality; security of jobs provides the employee with protection not only not to lose his/her job, but also from being pushed into poverty; enforcement in the field of anti-discrimination is a direct tool for protection.Austria’s performance in the MIPEX is extremely poor, as can be seen in Figure 2. Overall it ranked 26th, ex aequo with Cyprus and only followed by Latvia. Out of the six strands its performance in access to nationality was the worst, where Austria ranked last of all 28 measured countries. In the strand on family reunion it ranked second to last, followed by Cyprus. Its best score was in long-term residents, where it ranked 18th. In MIPEX III of 2011, Austria ranked 24th among the 31 countries measured, with improvements mainly in the labor section - which is now Austria’s best rank, but without any improvements in the  family reunion, anti-discrimination or access to nationality strands...Read more