A new research report by the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) on behalf of the Austrian Integration Fund (ÖIF) shows how the integration of follow-up asylum and subsidiary protection beneficiaries develops. As part of the study, data of 12,500 asylum and subsidiary protectionists were analyzed in Austria, including 2,500 family-lovers who were interviewed between 2018 and 2024. The results show that follow-up family members need longer than asylum and subsidiary protection for protection, who have directly applied for asylum in Austria. Especially in the first years after arrival, they are less common and are progressing more slowly when learning German. The new research report is in the ÖIF media library Free for download.
Only 8 % of women moving down are employed in the first three years
The majority (46 %) of the family members who followed up consists of women, 42 % were minors at the time of the follow -up. 82 % of the followed women are married, compared to 57 % of women who have directly applied for asylum in Austria. In addition, follow -up women often state that they are not employed and live with minor children in the household. At 34 %, they are even more unemployed than women (30 %) who have directly applied for asylum in Austria.
The acquisition of women who have drawn is 22 %. This makes it even lower than for those women who have directly applied for asylum in Austria (28 %). In the first three years after arrival, this difference is even greater: only 8 % of the women who followed are gained compared to 19 % of the originally applicable women. In addition, the results show that women who came to Austria through family reunification mainly only move within their own group and represent patriarchal role models of the country of origin. However, women who have applied for asylum in Austria directly state that they are in contact with Austrians.
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Young men who came to Austria as a minor by family reunification have a significantly lower employee participation than refugees of the same age who directly applied for asylum in Austria. At the time of the survey, 41 % of the men who have moved in, compared to 57 % of the originally applicant refugees, were employed. The difference in Syrian consecutive people is particularly striking: only 34 % of the syrians drawn were employed, while it was 48 % among the originally applicant Syrians. 38 % of those moved are in an apprenticeship. Original applicants are more often employed than young people at 54 % (38 %).
Language acquisition: Suitable women learn slow German
Sedging women learn the German language more slowly than women who have directly applied for asylum in Austria: The results also show that followed women do less frequently German courses than women who directly applied for asylum in Austria. The knowledge of German is gradually improving with a longer length of stay: after five years, both of the half of the women who followed up and the originally applied women rate their own knowledge of German as good or very good.
Young refugees who came to Austria as minors make better progress when learning the German language: a high proportion of young asylum and subsidiary protectionists in family reunification states to speak German well or very well.
ÖIF offers a wide range of integration for refugees and displaced persons
The Austrian integration fund (ÖIF), as the fund of the Republic of Austria and the strong partner of the federal government, is the central point of contact for asylum and subsidiary protection for protection and Ukrainian displaced persons in integration and learning German. With around 67,500 course places, the ÖIF provided refugees and displaced people in the previous year as a large German course offer than ever before. In addition, the ÖIF 2024 carried out around 80,000 integration tests and recorded around 230,000 consultations in the integration centers in all state capitals. With German courses also at borderce time and on weekends, own online German courses and a number of online German learning offers sprachportal.at the ÖIF offers refugees, displaced persons and immigrants a comprehensive range of part -time learning German to promote a quick start to work in parallel to learning German. The ÖIF women’s centers also offer female refugees a wide range of multilingual seminars, consultation hours and advice on career and educational opportunities, health and family as well as violence prevention and self-determination.