Biography

Josef Kohlbacher, MA, PhD, Master & Doctor of Social Sciences was born 1958 in Lilienfeld (Austria). He studied sociology, social and cultural anthropology, German philology, history and Egyptology at the University of Vienna; from 1977 to 1987 a number of field research stays in Egypt, India and Nepal, from 1984 to 1987 he was a research fellow at the Museum of Anthropology in Vienna. Since 1988 he was senior researcher at the Institute of Urban and Regional Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, where he has been deputy director of the Institute fro 2006 to 2023.

His main research interests are the housing market integration of immigrants, municipal integration policies, interethnic relations in the local urban context, neighbourhood social interactions, residential segregation and its social implications and refugee studies with a focus on integration processes and value orientations.

Research Areas

• Migration and integration

• Refugee studies

• Municipal integration policies

• Interethnic relations in the local urban context

• Neighbourhood social interactions,

• Residential segregation

Research Projects

• CLIP - Network of European Cities for Local Integration Policies for Immigrants

• ICEC (Interethnic Coexistence in European Cities)

• APIS (Mapping historical networks: Building the new Austrian Prosopographical | Biographical Information System)

• (L-P-A) Leaving – Persevering – Arriving. A transdisciplinary survey of the recent situation of refugees in Austria (Loslassen – durchstehen – ankommen. Eine transdisziplinäre Studie zur rezenten Situation Geflüchteter in Österreich)

• (Values Study) Value concepts and expectations of refugees admitted asylum and subsidiary protection in Austria (Wertehaltungen und Erwartungen von Asylberechtigten und subsidiär Schutzberechtigten in Österreich)

• Paths of Integration of refugees granted asylum or subsidiary protection from Afghanistan in Austria: Changing value concepts and expectations(Integrationsverläufe Asylberechtigter und subsidiär Schutzberechtigter aus Afghanistan in Österreich: Veränderungsprozesse der Wertvorstellungen und Erwartungshaltungen/IASAÖ

• The modes and outcomes of interaction of (im) mobile Kurdish women with public space: a cross-cultural comparative study of different urban contexts

Recent Publications

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Memberships and additional functions

• IMISCOE (International Migration Integration and Social Cohesion)

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