PROJECT

The 19th century was a time when big cities developed in Europe and America with highly diverse populations. How did self-representation work for transnational non-dominant populations in those metropolises? How was it organized?

The research project  »Difference and the City: Minority Migrants in Vienna, ca. 1900« ran from 2009 to 2013. It was funded by the Austrian Research fund FWF (project number P21493) and was conducted by Dr. Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier at the University of Vienna, Department of History. In 2010, the project was intermitted for research in the USA at the University of Minnesota in a joint project with Dr. Annemarie Steidl and Prof. James Oberly, »The Transatlantic Migration Experience from Austria hungary to the United States«, funded by the Botstiber Foundation. This research stay lead to unforseen yet all the more productive changes in the research design:  And to new questions … and answers.