Contents
Acknowledgements....................................................................................................................................................9
Abbreviations............................................................................................................................................................. 10
Executive Summary................................................................................................................................................. 11
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................................................ 15
1.1 The structure of the report.................................................................................................................................... 17
1.2 Scope of the report and definitions used............................................................................................................. 17
1.3 Methodology.......................................................................................................................................................... 18
1.3.1 Quantitative data............................................................................................................................................ 18
1.3.2 Legal research.................................................................................................................................................. 18
1.3.3 Meetings with stakeholders......................................................................................................................... 19
1.3.4 Interviews with stateless persons................................................................................................................ 20
2. Statelessness Across the Globe and UNHCR’s Engagement with Statelessness...................... 21
2.1 Causes of statelessness.......................................................................................................................................... 21
2.2 UNHCR’s engagement with statelessness............................................................................................................. 22
3. A Demography of statelessness in Austria............................................................................................... 23
3.1 T he challenges of mapping the stateless population in Austria........................................................................... 23
3.1.1 Stateless persons in the Central Register of Residents.......................................................................... 23
3.1.2 Stateless persons in migration statistics................................................................................................... 25
3.1.3 Other sources of data on stateless persons in Austria........................................................................... 25
3.1.4 Missing data and stateless persons missing from the statistical data............................................... 25
3.2 The evolution of statelessness in Austria............................................................................................................. 26
3.2.1 Evolution of the stateless population between 1951 and 2016......................................................... 28
3.3 Current data on statelessness in Austria............................................................................................................... 29
3.3.1 Central Register of Residents....................................................................................................................... 29
3.3.2 Migration and Asylum Statistics.................................................................................................................. 29
3.3.3 Other data on stateless persons in Austria............................................................................................... 30
3.3.4 Observations from interviewed stakeholders.......................................................................................... 32
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