On May 26th at 1:35 p.m. on ORF 2
Vienna (OTS) – Ajda Sticker presents “Heimat Fremde Heimat” on Sunday, May 26, 2024, at 1:35 p.m. on ORF 2 with the following topics:
Stateless in Austria
According to the United Nations Charter of Human Rights of 1948, every person has the right to a nationality. However, today there are around ten million people worldwide who are stateless. In Austria it is estimated that there are around 20,000 people. Until recently, 20-year-old high school student Ellahe Hashemi was one of them. She came to Austria at the age of eight and grew up here as a stateless person. But what is life like without citizenship? And how does Austria deal with statelessness? Adriana Jurić asked.
How the “guest workers” came to Austria
“We called for workers, and people came” – this is how the writer Max Frisch put it in 1965. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the recruitment agreement with Turkey, “Heimat Fremde Heimat” will be looking back in a four-part series in the coming weeks at the beginnings of labor migration, the so-called “guest work” in Austria. The word “guest worker,” which was used at the time, was intended to emphasize the temporary nature of the work assignment. However, the workers were not treated like “guests,” as Silvia Heimader reports.
Skilled workers wanted
The shortage of skilled workers in Austria is getting worse: more than 100 professions are on the job shortage list this year, which means there are fewer than 1.5 job seekers for each advertised position and companies can more easily employ workers from third countries. For the first time, bus drivers are also on the list. Many companies are already desperately looking for drivers in travel, transport or ski buses. Nicole Kampl accompanied a Spanish ski bus driver in Kaprun who had already spent the second winter season in Austria.