Migration in und aus Südosteuropa – Ein demographischer Überblick
Migration to and from Southeast Europe – A Demographic Survey

Summary/Abstract: The article offers an overview of migration processes in Southeast Europe, embedded into the demographic development over the past six decades. Three different perspectives are selected: The general perspective on the whole region based on figures of population development and net migration; the demography of immigrants from Southeast Europe using the micro census in Austria; and the structure of potential emigrants derived from the results of a specific survey in Serbia. The different approaches clearly show that after a long period of growth, Southeast Europe has become a shrinking region due to a rapid decline in fertility rates and a surplus of outmigration. The outmigration of mostly young and qualified people is a reaction to the political and economic circumstances in Southeast Europe and the employment doors opening to them in Western Europe. Southeast Europe and Western Europe constitute a functional migration region, which should therefore collaborate more closely in migration issues.

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