Ao. Univ.-Prof. i.R. Mag. Dr. Karl Husa

Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna
A-1010 Vienna, Universitätsstraße 7/4, Zi. C 529

T: +43-1-4277-48632

Email: karl.husa@univie.ac.at

Education

  • 1969 – 1974: Studies of Geography and English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria
  • 1974, graduation as "Master of natural science“ (Mag. rer. nat.)
  • 1983 Graduation as Dr. phil. (PhD) with a doctoral thesis on internal migration, residential mobility and suburbanization processes in the Vienna Region
  • 1988 Tenure ("Venia Docendi" in Human Geography) after presenting a monograph ("Habilitation Thesis") on "Spatial mobility in Third World Countries as a complex phenomenon: The example of Thailand“

Job Career

  • 1974 – 1975 Research fellow at the University of Vienna, Department of Geography
  • 1975 – 1979 University Assistant
  • 1979 – 1988 University Assistant and Lecturer
  • June 1988 Tenure, Assistant professor at the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna until June 1996
  • June 1996 Associate Professor at the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna
  • since 2002 Head of the Asia Research Group of the Dept. of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna
  • since October 2009 board member of the interdisciplinary research platform on „Migration and Integration“ of the University of Vienna
  • since October 2011 vice co-ordinator for the scientific cooperation of the University of Vienna with Southeast Asian universities (ASEA Uninet)

Current Research Interests

  • spatial demography, theory, dynamics and spatial patterns of internal and international migration, theory and dynamics of population change, socio-demographic transformation processes, theory, dynamics and spatial patterns of fertility decline and population ageing,
  • Regional focus: Southeast Asia, Europe

Main Fields of Teaching

  • Population Geography, Spatial Demography, Migration Research , Development Problems and Regional Disparities in Third World Countries (regional focus: Southeast Asia)
  • Excursion abroad: Organisation and scientific support of numerous excursions to Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Tunesia, Algeria, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, India, Nepal, Lao PDR, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong SAR
  • Lectures abroad: lectures on various topics (mainly population geography) at numerous universities in Europe, India, Southeast and East Asia

Membership and Activities in Scientific Societies

  • Austrian Geographical Society
  • Population Reference Bureau (PRB), Washington D. C.
  • Thai-Austrian Society
  • Working Group "Southeast Asia" of the "German Geographical Society" (DGfG)
  • SEAS - Working Group "Promotion of Southeast Asian Studies" - Verein zur wissenschaftlichen Foerderung suedostasiatischer Anliegen (honorary member)
  • Editorial Board: HSK – Internationale Entwicklung (since 1996);
  • Editorial Board: Edition Weltregionen (since 2003);
  • Editorial Board: Konzepte und Kontroversen. Geschichte – Geographie – Politische Bildung (since 2004);
  • Referee for scientific journals: Statistische Nachrichten, Die Erde, Erdkunde, Revue Geographie Belge;
  • Referee for projects: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (since 2008)

Publications

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Sasiwongsaroj, K., & Husa, K. (2022). Getting Old and Getting Care: Thailand as Hot Spot of International Retirement Migration. In K. Sasiwongsaroj, K. Husa, & H. Wohlschlägl (Eds.), Migration, Ageing, Aged Care and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Asia: Case Studies from Thailand and Japan (Vol. 24, pp. 53-84). Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung. Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung Vol. 24
Sasiwongsaroj, K., Husa, K., & Wohlschlägl, H. (2022). Graying Southeast Asia – Demographic aging between success story and multilevel challenge. In K. Sasiwongsaroj, K. Husa, & H. Wohlschlägl (Eds.), Migration, Ageing, Aged Care and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Asia: Case Studies from Thailand and Japan (pp. 11-51). Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung. Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung Vol. 24
Sasiwongsaroj, K., Husa, K., & Wohlschlägl, H. (2022). Migration, Ageing, Aged Care and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Asia: Case Studies from Thailand and Japan. Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung. Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung Vol. 24
Butratana, K., Trupp, A., & Husa, K. (2022). Intersections of Tourism, Cross-border Marriage, and Retirement Migration in Thailand. In N. Bloch, & K. Adams (Eds.), Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile (1 ed.). Routledge, Taylor & Francis. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003182689-9/intersections-tourism-cross-border-marriage-retirement-migration-thailand-kosita-butratana-alexander-trupp-karl-husa
Sasiwongsaroj, K., Husa, K., & Wohlschlägl, H. (2020). Fertility Decline and the Role of Culture – Thailand’s Demographic Challenges for the 21st Century. In S. Kurfürst, & S. Wehner (Eds.), Southeast Asian Transformations : Urban and Rural Developments in the 21st Century (pp. 125-152). Transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839451717
Husa, K., Korff, H-R., & Wohlschlägl, H. (2018). Einleitung. In K. Husa, H-R. Korff, & H. Wohlschlägl (Eds.), Südostasien – Gesellschaften, Räume und Entwicklung (Vol. 25, pp. 7-12). New Academic Press. Edition Weltregionen Vol. 25
Husa, K., & Wohlschlägl, H. (2018). Kulis, Gastarbeiter, Immigranten – 150 Jahre Arbeitsmigration in Südostasien. In K. Husa, H-R. Korff, & H. Wohlschlägl (Eds.), Südostasien – Gesellschaften, Räume und Entwicklung (pp. 218-244). New Academic Press. Edition Weltregionen Vol. 25
Husa, K., Korff, H-R., & Wohlschlägl, H. (Eds.) (2018). Südostasien – Gesellschaften, Räume und Entwicklung. New Academic Press. Edition Weltregionen Vol. 25
Husa, K., & Wohlschlägl, H. (2018). Vom Kinderreichtum zur Alterung – Bevölkerungsentwicklung und demographischer Wandel in Südostasien. In Südostasien – Gesellschaften, Räume und Entwicklung (pp. 179-217). New Academic Press. Edition Weltregionen Vol. 25
Husa, K., & Wohlschlägl, H. (2017). Different Immigrant Groups, Different Issues:Three Case Studies from Thailand – An Introduction. In K. Husa, & H. Wohlschlägl (Eds.), Hill Tribes, Labour Migrants, Foreign Retirees: Different Immigrant Groups, Different Problems: Three Case Studies from Thailand (pp. 7-9). Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung. Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung Vol. 21
Husa, K., & Wohlschlägl, H. (Eds.) (2017). Hill Tribes, Labour Migrants, Foreign Retirees: Different Immigrant Groups, Different Problems: Three Case Studies from Thailand. Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung. Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung Vol. 21
Plubrukarn, A., Chanthathamrongsiri, N., Husa, K., & Brecker, L. (2015). Marine Natural Products. Nachrichten aus der Chemie, 63(2), 199–201. https://doi.org/10.1002/nadc.201590073
Husa, K., & Wohlschlägl, H. (2014). Global Markets – Local Consequences: The Migration of Labour in Southeast Asia Since the Mid-Nineteenth Century. In A. Trupp, K. Husa, & H. Wohlschlägl (Eds.), Southeast Asian Mobility Transitions: Issues and Trends in Migration and Tourism (pp. 17-34). Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung. Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung Vol. 19
Husa, K., & Kainrath, W. (2014). Österreich-Bibliographie 2012 (mit Nachträgen 2011). Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft, 155.2013, 361-392.
Vielhaber, C., Husa, K., Jöstl, J., Krisztina, V., & Birgit, W. (2014). Paradise Found? Experiences of Farang Retirement Migrants in Hua Hin and Cha-am, Thailand. In A. Trupp, K. Husa, & H. Wohlschlägl (Eds.), Southeast Asian Mobility Transitions: Issues and Trends in Migration and Tourism (pp. 168-195). Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung. Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung Vol. 19
Husa, K., Vielhaber, C., Jöstl, J., Krisztina, V., & Birgit, W. (2014). Searching for Paradise? International Retirement Migration to Thailand – A Case Study of Hua Hin and Cha-am. In A. Trupp, K. Husa, & H. Wohlschlägl (Eds.), Southeast Asian Mobility Transitions: Issues and Trends in Migration and Tourism (pp. 137-167). Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung. Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung Vol. 19
Husa, K., Trupp, A., & Wohlschlägl, H. (Eds.) (2014). Southeast Asian Mobility Transitions: Issues and Trends in Migration and Tourism. Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung. Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung Vol. 19
Husa, K., Trupp, A., & Wohlschlägl, H. (2014). Southeast Asian Mobility Transitions – An Introduction. In A. Trupp, K. Husa, & H. Wohlschlägl (Eds.), Southeast Asian Mobility Transitions: Issues and Trends in Migration and Tourism (pp. 7-16). Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung. Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung Vol. 19
Husa, K., & Kainrath, W. (2013). Österreich-Bibliographie 2011 (mit Nachträgen 2010). Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft, 154.2012, 375-408.
Wisbauer, A., Wohlschlägl, H., & Husa, K. (2012). Grundzüge der Bevölkerungsgeographie - Wintersemester 2012/13: Lehrbehelf zur Lehrveranstaltung. Unknown publisher.
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