It seems the once accepting Austria has changed its view of immigrants. I personally remember the influx of Turks to fill jobs they couldn’t find Austrians to fill. There are now 270k of them and their children now living there.
But, maybe not for much longer as the two ruling parties are pushing on those with dual citizenship, something forbidden to Austrians.
Except in very special cases, Austria does not allow its citizens to hold dual nationality.
But the far-right and anti-Islam Freedom Party (FPÖ) -- junior partner in a ruling coalition with the centre-right Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) -- last year claimed to have received a list of Turkish voters which it said could contain tens of thousands of illegal dual nationals.
The affair drew comparisons to Britain's "Windrush" scandal, in which scores of British citizens of Caribbean origin were deported or detained because they had not collected the necessary paperwork proving their right be there.
Now many of the Austrians of Turkish origin whose names appear on the list could face a similar administrative nightmare.
This article discusses the difficulty of these people to prove their right to remain in Austria. It also deals with “nationalism” that is arising among some European countries – many based upon a growing dissatisfaction with Muslims.
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