Internment Refugee Camps

How did and does the fate of refugees unfold in internment camps? The contributors to this book facilitate an extensive engagement with the organized, state led, and forced placement of refugees in the past and present. They show the parallels and differences between the practices and types of internment in different countries – while considering the specific historical contexts. Moreover, they highlight 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 and/or historical perspective.

Gabriele Anderl (Dr.) is a freelance researcher in Vienna. She worked for the Austrian Historical Commission and for the Austrian Commission for Provenance Research and is vice president of the Austrian Society for Exile Research (öge). 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.) is a historian and postdoc researcher at the Department of Contemporary History at Universität Wien. In her postdoc project she focuses on the migration of knowledge and the migration of scholars from Austria to Latin America between 1930 and 1970 (especially to Argentina and Chile). She is a board member of the öge.

Christoph Reinprecht (Dr.) ist Professor für Soziologie an der Universität Wien, Assoziierter Wissenschaftler am Centre de la Recherche sur L'Habitat in Paris und Präsident der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Exilforschung. Seine Forschungsinteressen sind Migration und Stadtforschung, soziale Ungleichheit und politische Soziologie sowie die Geschichte der Soziologie, im Speziellen der Konstitution des sozialen Felds der empirischen Soziologie in Wien.