Conference paper
The Social Structure of Emigrants from Croatia and Slavonia in the 1880–1910 Period
Agneza Szabo
; Zagreb City Museum, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
On the basis of published statistical sources, the author provides an overview of the structure of emigrants from Croatia and Slavonia that left the country in the period between 1880 and 1910. It is confirmed that migrants were in general former peasant farmers or agricultural wage labourers and that their share in the population of the country of origin amounted to as much as 8% by the end of 1910. Using more detailed indicators, available for the 1901–1910 period, in the second part of her review the author analyzes the migration outflow with regard to local regions of origin, the direction of emigration, religious affiliation and mother tongue of the migrants. She concludes that very young people from the more impoverished parts of the country, who could not guarantee a minimum level of material existence, constituted the majority among emigrants from Croatia and Slavonia.
Keywords
social structure; emigrants; Croatia; Slavonia
Hrčak ID:
128158
URI
Publication date:
31.5.1988.
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