ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with key assumptions regarding integration processes among second-generation foreign adolescents and young adults in Austria. Among the second generation, empirical investigations mostly identified a stronger cultural turn and increasing national identification toward the society of immigration in Europe. Immigration over the past decades has changed European society in terms of its social and cultural composition. The model of workforce importation from former Yugoslavia and Turkey was based on the criterion of rotation that is the temporary stay and return, and the acquisition of new manpower according to economic requirements. The assimilation model is substantially expanded by incorporating migrant parents' social status and ethnic orientations. The former Yugoslav youth in investigation showed rather similar effects of education. The results confirm that cultural traditions are given significance particularly in the everyday lives of adolescents of Turkish origin.
