A PREPARATORY TEXT

This publication of 2005 was the first published text on the project about migrants from predominantly South Slavic speaking regions to Vienna around 1900. It contains many basic considerations, an evaluation of the state of the art and discusses possible research strategies. The state of the art section was criticized because it did not include some of the most important quantitative research on migrants to Vienna. This critique was appreciated and later texts did incorporate this literature. The further development of the project should furthermore lead to a close engagement with quantitative history and historians, as the description of the project shows.