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

  • 1960 – 1968 Secondary School in 1170 Vienna, RG Geblergasse; graduation June 1968 (summa cum laude)
  • 1969 – 1974/75: Studies of Geography and English at the University of Vienna, Austria final examinations in autumn 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
  • October 2009 – 2014: board member of the interdisciplinary research platform on „Migration and Integration“ of the University of Vienna
  • since 2011: Deputy ASEA-UNINET representative of the University of Vienna
  • since February 2016: Foreign Expert, Suan Dusit University, Hua Hin, Thailand

Current Research Interests

  • intersections of tourism and migration, retirement migration and longstay tourism
  • population geography, theory and dynamics of population change, spatial demography
  • dynamics and spatial patterns of internal and international migration
  • theory, dynamics and spatial patterns of fertility decline and population ageing
  • socio-demographic transformation processes

Main Fields of Teaching

  • Population Geography, Migration Research, Tourism and Leisure 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, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong SAR
  • Lectures abroad: lectures on various topics (mainly population geography) at several universities in Europe, India and Southeast and East Asia

Scientific Reviews and Consulting / 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)
  • Editorial Board: Suan Dusit University Research Journal, Thailand - Humanities and Social Sciences (since 2014)
  • Referee for scientific journals: Statistische Nachrichten, Erdkunde, Die Erde, Revue Geographie Belge, SDU Research Journal - Humanities and Social Sciences, Journal of Population and Social Studies (JPSS)
  • Referee for projects: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (since 2008)
  • Scientific Supervisor for OAD, ASEA-UNINET and EURASIA-PACIFIC UNINET: supervisor for visiting scientists from PR China and Southeast Asia (especially Thailand)

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 (Hrsg.), Migration, Ageing, Aged Care and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Asia: Case Studies from Thailand and Japan (Band 24, S. 53-84). Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung.
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 (Hrsg.), Migration, Ageing, Aged Care and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Asia: Case Studies from Thailand and Japan (S. 11-51). Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung.
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 Band 24
Butratana, K., Trupp, A., & Husa, K. (2022). Intersections of Tourism, Cross-border Marriage, and Retirement Migration in Thailand. in N. Bloch, & K. Adams (Hrsg.), Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile (1 Aufl.). 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 (Hrsg.), Southeast Asian Transformations : Urban and Rural Developments in the 21st Century (S. 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 (Hrsg.), Südostasien – Gesellschaften, Räume und Entwicklung (Band 25, S. 7-12). New Academic Press.
Husa, K., & Wohlschlägl, H. (2018). Kulis, Gastarbeiter, Immigranten – 150 Jahre Arbeitsmigration in Südostasien. in K. Husa, H.-R. Korff, & H. Wohlschlägl (Hrsg.), Südostasien – Gesellschaften, Räume und Entwicklung (S. 218-244). New Academic Press.
Husa, K., Korff, H.-R., & Wohlschlägl, H. (Hrsg.) (2018). Südostasien – Gesellschaften, Räume und Entwicklung. New Academic Press. Edition Weltregionen Band 25
Husa, K., & Wohlschlägl, H. (2018). Vom Kinderreichtum zur Alterung – Bevölkerungsentwicklung und demographischer Wandel in Südostasien. in Südostasien – Gesellschaften, Räume und Entwicklung (S. 179-217). New Academic Press.
Husa, K., & Wohlschlägl, H. (2017). Different Immigrant Groups, Different Issues:Three Case Studies from Thailand – An Introduction. in K. Husa, & H. Wohlschlägl (Hrsg.), Hill Tribes, Labour Migrants, Foreign Retirees: Different Immigrant Groups, Different Problems: Three Case Studies from Thailand (S. 7-9). Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung.
Husa, K., & Wohlschlägl, H. (Hrsg.) (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 Band 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 (Hrsg.), Southeast Asian Mobility Transitions: Issues and Trends in Migration and Tourism (S. 17-34). Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung.
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 (Hrsg.), Southeast Asian Mobility Transitions: Issues and Trends in Migration and Tourism (S. 168-195). Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung.
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 (Hrsg.), Southeast Asian Mobility Transitions: Issues and Trends in Migration and Tourism (S. 137-167). Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung.
Husa, K., Trupp, A., & Wohlschlägl, H. (Hrsg.) (2014). Southeast Asian Mobility Transitions: Issues and Trends in Migration and Tourism. Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung. Abhandlungen zur Geographie und Regionalforschung Band 19
Husa, K., Trupp, A., & Wohlschlägl, H. (2014). Southeast Asian Mobility Transitions – An Introduction. in A. Trupp, K. Husa, & H. Wohlschlägl (Hrsg.), Southeast Asian Mobility Transitions: Issues and Trends in Migration and Tourism (S. 7-16). Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung.
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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