Austria Immigration Detention. Follow me on twitter @FreyLindsayMCP, or email me on friederik.lindsay@gmail.comFrom 2010 to 2014 the percentage of Austrians who thought integration was working “very well” or “rather well” grew steadily, from 30.8% in 2010 to 48.6% just four years later. Unfortunately, the opinion surveys don’t give a very clear picture of how that debate has shaped opinion in Austria since 2015, aside from communicating that it's all quite volatile.In any case, if we want to understand the rapid growth in prominence of anti-immigrant parties in Austria since 2015, what is more important than the actual split of sentiment is the tone of such, said Rita Garstenauer, director of the Centre for Migration Research in St. Pölten: “If we follow the assumption that approval and disapproval in the population are at a relatively constant ratio of 50:50, then the disapproving half is more articulate nowadays, and also politically more mobilized.”In 2015 however, the upward momentum broke and since then positive opinion on integration has bounced up and down: 40.5% in 2015, up to 48.1% in 2016 before a low of 36.5% in 2017 and then back up to 45% this year.I write about business, migration and how the two intersect. This upward trend in detention pending deportation followed a period during which the number of detainees had been decreasing.
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Austria and Germany warn that they are running out their ability to absorb waves of people in the migrant crisis gripping Europe. This difference was evident during the recent visit of the Chancellor of Germany, "Angela Merkel" and the Austrian Chancellor "Sebastian Kurz". Between 2010 and 2014, for example, annual detention numbers decreased from approximately 6,200 to nearly 1,900. These developments have in turn spurred persistentincreases in Austria’s detention and removal efforts despite the fact that thenumber of asylum applications has been plummeting for several years, returning tolevels not seen in nearly a decade.Austriarepresents a prima facie case of how the refugee “crisis” of 2015-2016 translatedinto a seemingly permanent crisis in both political discourse and popularperception across the European Union (EU).