Humanitarianism with Limits: The Reception of Refugees from the Global South in Austria in the 1970s

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.14220/zsch.2022.49.3.367" target="_blank" >https://dx.doi.org/10.14220/zsch.2022.49.3.367</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14220/zsch.2022.49.3.367" target="_blank" >10.14220/zsch.2022.49.3.367</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Humanitarianism with Limits: The Reception of Refugees from the Global South in Austria in the 1970s

Original language description

The article is the first study toaddress the Austrian reception of refugees from the Global South in the Kreisky era on the basis of available archival sources. After a brief introductory section addressing the myth and reality of Austria’s role as a Cold War refuge, it proceeds with two cases studies. The first case study addresses reactions to the military coup in Chile 1973, the subsequent interactions with the junta, and the granting of asylum for persecuted Chileans. The second case study assesses Austria’s contribution to the resettlement of Indochinese refugees from “small quotas” to a broader solidarity with the so-called “boat people.” Both cases illustrate general patterns in Austria’s refugee policies during the Cold War and the growing importance of society and NGOs in facilitating the admission of non-European refugees. The article also demonstrates that humanitarianism had its limits, and the European approach continued to dominate Austria’s Cold War asylum policies. This became evident in 1981 when the arrival of Polish refugees abruptly ended Austrian participation in global refugee resettlement. The conclusion stresses the primarily European scope of Austria’s refugee policies and points to several continuities in asylum policies from the 1970s to the present day.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Zeitgeschichte

ISSN

0256-5250

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

49

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

367-387

UT code for WoS article

000869004300004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85139844923