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When Austria welcomed its first Turkish guest workers in 1964 there was little reaction from locals.
Austria was not in fact the first choice of many so-called Gastarbeiters, many of whom would have preferred to go to Germany or Switzerland, where wage levels were higher.
Sylvia Hahn, Vice-Rector of the University of Salzburg, told delegates at a symposium on fifty years of labour recruitment in Vienna on Monday that "concerted attempts at integration only began in the 1980s."