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A nagy exodus
The Great Exodus

Author(s): Gábor Gyáni
Subject(s): 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919)
Published by: Korunk Baráti Társaság
Keywords: migration; mid-19th and mid-20th century; America; Hungary

Summary/Abstract: As a clear sign of globalization nearly fifty million Europeans moved to the United States between the mid-19th and mid-20th century. Hungarian citizens also took a part in the process during the decades of the late 19th and early 20th century. Their number, according to the data of turnover, could be around one million and three hundred thousand. Since every third outmigrant had finally returned, and a great number of them did the distance several times between America and Hungary, the actual human loss of the country could be at best nine hundred thousand. The extent of overseas migration, however, was much less than the interregional one happening within the boundaries of the country and/or Europe. The migrants were recruited mainly from the poor agrarian population, and the non-Hungarian nationalities. The geographical distribution of the movement was also highly selective: the emigration centers coincided with a few marginal areas (counties and groups of villages).

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 35-46
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Hungarian