Summary: Responses to Migrants with Precarious Status in Vienna: Frames, Strategies and Evolving

Summary

Persons with precarious status in Austria In the LoReMi research project, a migrant with precarious status is defined as a person who lacks regular immigration or resident status or, having a conditional or temporary status, is vulnerable to the loss of their legal status, and is therefore deprived off, or runs the risk of losing most basic social rights and access to services. [...] Multilingual social work is crucial in the work of these The majority of representatives from the municipality and CSOs health centres and are often successful in getting people interviewed for this research project refer positively to each insured and thus integrated into the regular heath system. [...] Civil society actors emphasise that people are entitled to the protection and assertion of their Legal Advice and Counselling social and labour rights irrespective of their residence status, and that they should be strengthened and supported in this The extreme complexity of asylum law and law relating to regard. [...] The For people who are excluded from the labour market because complexity of the system and the large number of offers can of their status, but also due to illness or age, a way out of lead to situations where the people in contact with migrants precariousness is often almost impossible. [...] They're not entitled to social welfare, they're not mechanisms in the enforcement of rights (so-called "firewalls"), entitled to unemployment benefits, and they all go to work and and on the other hand more effective means of regularising sometimes they work two, three different jobs to somehow victims of exploitation, violence and human trafficking.