Migrant and post-migrant groups and their languages are underrepresented in Austrian archives. In the ‘GEDMIG’ project, pupils from grades 9 to 12 therefore conduct interviews with representatives of the older generation. In this way, the history of migration is researched using oral history methods.
An article from the project has now been published in the educational science publication ‘Journal of Elementary Education’, which describes the procedure and the results to date. The focus of the text is on the possibilities of multilingualism and how migrant history can be researched despite socio-political hurdles.
The article Multilingual Memory of Migration - A Participatory Oral History Project in Austria by project leader Georg Traska (ÖAW) is available under an open licence.