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Title: Migration Patterns in Late Imperial Austria
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2006
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Abstract: The aim of this research project is to analyse the relationship between migration to North America and other types of mobility, such as internal migration and short-distance migration across state boundaries, in the period 1850-1914. Migration from the Austrian Empire to North America will be examined within the context of long-standing patterns of migration, population development in the 19th century and the changing socio-economic structure of the Habsburg Monarchy.The focus of our investigation into migration patterns will be provided by the provinces of Upper and Lower Austria (in todays Austria), and Bohemia and Moravia (now in the Czech Republic). We have restricted the geographical scope of the project for a number of reasons. Firstly, this area formed the Monarchys geographical and economic core. Secondly, these regions were in quantitative terms at the centre of migrational activity. Thirdly, it is neither feasible nor worthwhile to include other provinces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Expansion of the area under examination would extend the projects time-scale, while simultaneously necessitating a greater range of language skills than is at our disposal. More importantly, a research group in Budapest under the direction of Tibor Frank and Julianna Pusks is at present already working on migration from Hungary to the U.S.A. at the start of the 20th century, using much the same kinds of source material shipping companies passenger lists that we plan to use ourselves (see 4.1.). We are in close contact with this group and we hope that the two projects will complement each other.
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Authors: Zeitlhofer, Hermann; Ehmer, Josef; Steidl, Annemarie
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Publication Number: 3
Institution: terreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Methodology and Data Collection, Migration and Immigration
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