Refugee studies in Austria today From challenges to a research horizon (original) (raw)

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 in terdisciplin-ary network for the study of refugees based in Vienna, Austria. To this end, this article engages with the grounding facts of the present Central European sociohis-torical context and global political trends, grapples with shift ing and questionable research funding landscapes such as the focus on "integration, " illustrates some of the main current research challenges, and highlights pressing topics. It concludes proposing a research horizon to counter present strong limitations on forced migration research and steer this research toward a more meaningful direction.