Concluded projects

of the Institute of Conflict Research

Documentation of research on "Xenophobia in Austria"/ 3

Project Management:	Mag.a Dr.in Brigitte Halbmayr
Project Team:	Mag.a Karin Bischof Mag.a Dr.in Brigitte Halbmayr Mag.a Kerstin Lercher Bernadette Goldberger (Trainee)
Financed by:	Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
Concluded in	May 2006
	German

The documentation of (non-published) research on “Xenophobia in Austria”/ 3 is a further update of a database which was set up in 1997 and was part of a research focal point entitled “Xenophobia - research, explanation, counter activities/counteractive measures”, put in place by the Federal Ministry of Science and Research. This database included around 500 research projects as well as master theses and/or dissertations submitted at Austrian universities since the beginning of the Second Republic. The first update in 2001 added 200 additional records/datasets. The update of May 2006, which covered research reports of the years 2001 to 2005, enlarged the database by another 465 records.

What is specific about this database of so-called grey literature, set up in Austria in the large field of xenophobia (almost 1200 entries), is that it is edited in compliance with qualitative criteria. This means that the projects in the database are categorised into subject areas, systematically arranged according to their relevance to the topic of xenophobia, and presented along 20 characteristics (depending on the information available). The presentations of reports with high reference to xenophobia - 324 in the latest update - are rounded off with abstracts. The abstract gives an overview of structure and content of the project report, explores the questions addressed and the methods applied, and briefly presents the main results.

The database enables the interested user to quickly find the studies s/he is looking for and, what is more, offers a multitude of information on form and content. Since 2001, the database has been accessible online at http://datenbank.ikf.ac.at, which also provides instructions for the use of the database as well as mailing lists of research institutes and research financing institutions.

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