Nearly 100,000 people live in Vienna who were born here but did not receive citizenship. This limits their right to co-determination.
There are currently 97,058 people living in Vienna – about five percent of the city’s population – who were born here but did not receive Austrian citizenship. Unlike in the USA (place of birth counts), this is not automatic.
Serbia in first place
The majority of them therefore adopt the nationality of their parents or mother. Most children of migrants born in Austria have Serbian citizenship (17,087), followed by Turkey with 10,527 and Poland (6548). Also Germany, Hungary and Romania are in the top 10.
But there are also people who have no citizenship at all. Across Austria, 18,879 people live as “stateless”, with unclear or unknown citizenships (Vienna: 248). Two thirds of them were even born here. Criticism comes from SOS Mitmensch.
rights restricted
Because whether you are stateless or without Austrian nationality, the consequences can sometimes be felt for decades: in addition to great uncertainty, rights, such as the right to vote, are limited.
Source: Krone
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