The main migration policy instruments in Austria:

Non-exhaustive list of key policy documents in the area of migration:

• National policies and legislation:
• Consult Austria’s national law database.
• Consult recent publications of the European Migration Network.
• EU legislation:
• Consult the adopted EU legislation on Migration and Home Affairs
• Ratified international treaties:
• 1954/1973: ratification of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol.
• 2007: ratification of the 2000 Protocols on Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants.

The main ministries in charge of migration affairs:

• Federal Ministry of the Interior: Together with its subordinate authorities it is the main body dealing with migration affairs, including immigration (entry, residence); the reception of asylum seekers and the asylum procedure; border management and irregular migration; return and readmission.
• Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs: integration policy; international cooperation on migration; visa and consular affairs.

Sources:

• Austrian National Contact Point of the European Migration Network (2015): The organisation of migration and asylum policies in Austria. https://www.emn.at/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/organisation-study_AT-EMN-NCP_2016.pdf
• United Nations DESA-Population Division and UNICEF (2014): Migration Profiles - Common Set of Indicators. https://esa.un.org/MigGMGProfiles/Indicators/indicators.HTM

Last update: December 2018