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Title: Relations between Continental and Transatlantic Migration in Late-Impreial Austria

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2001

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Abstract: Within migration research as a whole, the diverse fields of overseas, continental, and short distance migration were for a long time studied in isolation from one another.1 The study of emigration from the Austrian Empire to North America and other types of regional mobility, such as internal and short distance migration across state boundaries, in the period 18501914 should demonstrate that a comprehensive analysis of migrational behaviour can only be achieved by investigating the different, simultaneous, alternating, successive, and merging movements involved in the migrational process. Based on different kinds of data, on the one hand samples from the passenger lists of ships sailing to New York in 1910, on the other hand population statistics from the Austrian Empire and a sample of the US census of 1910, the results will be fed into a geographical information system. Although this article will only present preliminary impressions it can be maintained that Austrian overseas migration should not be reduced to only one form of transatlantic mass movement and models of migration that emphasize agrarian crisis and uprooting do not seem appropriate in this case.

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Authors: Steidl, Annemarie

Periodical (Full): History and Computing

Issue: 3

Volume: 13

Pages: 283-300

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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