{"id":487,"date":"2016-06-28T23:25:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T23:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/home\/?p=487"},"modified":"2016-09-12T23:54:36","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T23:54:36","slug":"giving-and-learning-update-on-refugees-in-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/?p=487","title":{"rendered":"Giving and Learning: Update on Refugees in Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While in Vienna for the\u00a0annual <a title=\"Vienna Calling\" href=\"\/vienna-calling\/\" target=\"_blank\">QRCA International Conference<\/a>, I <a title=\"Do Good, Feel Good: Making an Impact as a Sociologist\" href=\"\/do-good-feel-good-making-an-impact-as-a-sociologist\/\" target=\"_blank\">fulfilled a special promise<\/a> I&#8217;d made over a year ago. I returned to the\u00a0Islamische Glaubensgemeinschaft (Islamic Religious Community) and made an Insights360 donation on behalf of my 2015 clients. Your generous donation will help many refugees receive services; I&#8217;m grateful to you!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-497 aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Donation_withcaption-300x230.png\" alt=\"Donation_withcaption\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an update that I received while visiting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During a recent election, the public majority rejected the idea of allowing more refugees into the country. Candidates catered to popular opinion by proposing to close the borders.<\/li>\n<li>It is critically important that current refugees are invited to \u201ceducate the educators\u201d and train community and civic leaders, so these groups can help refugees assimilate.<\/li>\n<li>Most refugees desire to work but are unable to do so given their refugee status. Aid relief organizations have coordinated volunteer opportunities for current refugees to help incoming refugees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-498 aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Donation2-300x207.png\" alt=\"Donation2\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, a party with an\u00a0anti-refugee platform\u00a0was voted into office.\u00a0Read more about what could happen next:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/25\/world\/europe\/austrian-presidential-vote-gives-edge-to-right-wing-candidate.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Austrian Presidential Vote Gives Edge to Right-Wing Candidate<\/a>, NY Times<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/343015-austria-law-refugees-border\/\" target=\"_blank\">Austria passes law to shut off border if refugee influx is too great<\/a>, RT News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in Vienna for the\u00a0annual QRCA International Conference, I fulfilled a special promise I&#8217;d made over a year ago. I returned to the\u00a0Islamische Glaubensgemeinschaft (Islamic Religious Community) and made an Insights360 donation on behalf of my 2015 clients. Your generous donation will help many refugees receive services; I&#8217;m grateful to you! Here&#8217;s an update that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":645,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insights360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}