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Integration
Integration is a crucial component of migration that enables migrants to become part of their new societies. This section provides information on integration opportunities in Austria.
The goal of the Austrian Integration Fund is to support the integration of refugees and migrants in the areas of language, employment and society, based on their obligations and rights in Austria. The Austrian Integration Fund is a fund of the Republic of Austria and partner of the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior.
The Austrian Integration Fund offers the following professional services in the area of integration:
- Support of dialogue between clients and Austrian society
- Dissemination of information and knowledge on integration to clients and Austrian society
- Making possible and monitoring national and European projects supporting integration
- Counselling clients, partners and institutions regarding everyday questions on integration
- Providing German language courses
- Assistance to job seekers in cooperation with experts
Counselling Centre for Migrants
The Counselling Centre for Migrants is a vital and independent contact point for migrants in Vienna, offering counselling based on extensive experience and knowledge.
The target group of the Centre is comprised of non-native German-speaking women and men (migrants independent of their citizenship) as well as Austrian citizens with non-native German-speaking family members living in Vienna.
The Centre additionally provides informational flyers, a multilingual homepage and multilingual lectures as well as group counselling and statements regarding alien law-making.
Counselling in possible in German, Arabic, Armenian, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, French, English, Italian, Kurdish, Polish, Russian, Slovakian, Spanish and Turkish.
Information for Migrants
In order to support migrants, IOM provides helpful links to relevant Austrian institutions as well as information on
Counter-Trafficking
Human trafficking hotline: 01 24836 85383
Victims of trafficking experience severe abuse and endure fundamental human rights violations. Common means of exploitation include rape, torture, debt bondage, unlawful confinement, and threats against victims’ families or other persons close to them as well as other forms of physical, sexual and psychological violence. Victims are mainly exploited in forced prostitution, forced labour, begging, petty crime, as well as trafficking for the purpose of illegal adoptions and organ trafficking.
IOM takes a comprehensive approach to trafficking in persons within the wider context of managing migration. IOM's wide-ranging activities are implemented through partnership with governmental institutions, NGOs and international organizations.
More information about IOM Vienna's counter-trafficking activities can be found here.
More information about IOM’s worldwide counter-trafficking activities and publications can be found here.
Questions can be addressed to IOM Vienna's Counter-Trafficking Coordinator This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Austrian NGOs and institutions providing direct assistance and support to victims of trafficking:
LEFÖ - specialized service provider for women
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IOM partner institutions in Austria:
Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs - coordinator of the Task Force to combat Human Trafficking
ECPAT Austria - end child prostitution, pornography and trafficking of children for sexual purposes
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights - Austrian research institute focusing on human rights and migration
EXIT - dedicated to combating human trafficking from Africa
Assisted Voluntary Return
Asylum applicants, whose asylum claims have been rejected, persons who do not have the right to residence in Austria as well as persons who have filed an asylum application and have decided to withdraw their application can return voluntarily to their country of origin with assistance of IOM.
More information can be found here on IOMs ongoing projects in Nigeria, Kosovo and Chechnya.
For information on return counselling centres in Austria, please click here.