ABSTRACT
Austria has over many years remained one of the major central European target countries for labor migration. More recently, the only growing areas of the Austrian economy have been private consumption and the exports of goods. Another significant area of growth remained tourism and tourism-related services—which continued to be one of the main sources of Austrian Gross Domestic Product. The purpose of the organizations was to preserve and maintain the Croatian language and culture and to pave the way for social, economic, and political integration. The different groups developed against different socio-historical backgrounds: While working migrants were only slightly affected by the Nazis' genocide, other groups like the Burgenland-Roma, Sinti, and Lovara still suffer its consequences today. Laws governing labor immigration into Austria were continuously liberalized throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, with permitted quotas rising, leading to a substantial rise in the amount of foreign labor in the Austrian market.
