Concentration Camp Systems: Data Collection and Dissemination

尽管在1896年至2018年期间，90多个国家使用了150多个这样的系统，其中包括2001年之后的至少15个，但对集中营使用情况的比较研究仍然有限。该项目将生成1896年至2018年集中营系统的全新全球原始数据集，并将向公众开放。新的数据集将促进对集中营系统的原因、行为和后果的研究，从而使新的学术研究能够检验集中营系统在有争议的政治、政府镇压、强迫移民和政治暴力中所起的作用。该项目将生成两个关于1896年至2018年全球90多个国家使用集中营的原始数据集。营地被定义为有边界和设防的空间，居住着受到非正规拘留的少数民族人口，营地管理者故意忽视他们，经常强迫他们劳动，有时还杀害大量人口。数据集的构建将基于对来自不同来源的信息进行系统编码。第一个数据集将包括大约150个集中营系统的详细信息。第二个数据集将列出这些系统共同组成的数千个单独营地的详细信息。这些数据集将通过定量研究和促进历史和现代案例的比较，促进对集中营的理解。因此，这些数据集将大大促进对集中营的原因、行为和后果的科学理解，以及对战争内外大规模拘留模式的比较。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Research on the comparative use of concentration camps is limited, even though more than 150 such systems were employed across more than 90 countries between 1896 and 2018, including at least 15 after 2001. This project will produce original new global datasets on concentration camp systems from 1896-2018 that will be made publicly available. The new datasets will facilitate study of the causes, conduct, and consequences of concentration camp systems and therefore will enable new scholarly research that examines the role played by concentration camp systems in contentious politics, government repression, forced migration, and political violence.This project will produce two original datasets on the use of concentration camps globally between 1896 and 2018 in over 90 countries. Camps are defined as bounded and fortified spaces housing minoritized populations subject to irregular detention, whom camp administrators purposefully neglect, often force into labor, and sometimes kill in large numbers. The construction of the datasets will be based on systematic coding of information from a diverse range of sources. The first dataset will include details of the approximately 150 systems of concentration camps. The second dataset will then catalogue details of the thousands of individual camps of which these systems are collectively comprised. These datasets will advance understanding of concentration camps by enabling quantitative research and facilitating comparison of historical and modern cases. The datasets will therefore significantly advance scientific understanding of the causes, conduct, and consequences of concentration camps as well comparative patterns of mass detention inside and outside of war.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.