By using our site, you agree to our collection of information through the use of cookies. To learn more, view our Privacy Policy. To browse Academia. Gabriele Anderl Dr. She published numerous books and articles in the field of contemporary history, especially on the National Socialist era, on flight, rescue and exile. Linda Erker Dr. In her postdoc project she focuses on the migration of knowledge and the migration of scholars from Austria to Latin America between and especially to Argentina and Chile.
Christoph Reinprecht Dr. In: Renate S. Meissner im Auftrag des Nationalfonds Hg. Lebensgeschichten von Opfern des Nationalsozialismus, Bd 4 , Wien , pp. The publication provides an overview of the particularities of exile during the Second World War in Asia. Lebensgeschichten von Opfern des Nationalsozialismus" Lives Remembered. The paper contextualizes the 23 autobiographical recollections some in German, some in English of Austrian exiles in the volume, both historically and in terms of content.
This article sets out to highlight present-day anthropological contributions to the field of forced migration and to the current debates on this topic in Europe through the experience of developing an international and interdisciplinary network for the study of refugees based in Vienna, Austria. It concludes proposing a research horizon to counter present strong limitations on forced migration research and steer this research toward a more meaningful direction.
The emphasis will be on a comparative perspective — synchronic as well as diachronic. One of the key aims of the conference is to make visible the parallels and differences between the practices and types of internment in different countries — while considering the specific historical contexts. Another important focus will be the nexus of relationships and agencies which constitute the camps in question as transitory spaces.
The contributions consist of analyses of local phenomena or case studies as well as comparative engagements from an international or historical perspective. A group of local individuals started research on the more or less forgotten concentration camp complex of GUSEN, Austria. This local research-endeavor meanwhile developed to an internationally well-known local-international initiative moderating professional scientific exchange and local-international commemorations dedicated to the approximately A vast amount of informative and commemorative events was planned and carried out between and to do this together with the local people that live now in and around that very historic area.
