| Abstract |
An examination of the recent Croatian immigrants in Vienna, Austria, focuses on the patterns of their integration and the community of the indigenous Austrian minority, the Gradisce Croats. Semistructured interviews with the prominent members of both communities, combined with census data on immigrant employment, suggest that the method of studying individual immigrant families must be replaced with focus on ethnic and linguistic communal integration. While the new Croat immigrants have good prospects in developing a common cultural milieu with the Gradisce Croats, adequate institutional support from the Austrian authorities is still missing. Because of the geographic proximity of former Yugoslavia, Croat immigrants often find themselves in conflicts with Bosnian Muslim and Serb immigrants. |