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A Transatlantic Experience: The book describes the transatlantic experience of migrants from Imperial Austria and the Kingdom of Hungary who arrived in the US from the middle of the nineteenth century up to the outbreak of WWI. Traditional assumptions of mass migration - such as the rapid and easy Americanization of newly arriving Europeans, as well as their strong desire of retaining as much of native culture as possible - have been challenged by recent historical studies.

Results have been published from research carried in the project Understanding the Migration Experience: The Austrian-American Connection, 1870-1914, conducted by Annemarie Steidl and for Difference in the City in 2010 at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. The study

Annemarie Steidl and Wladimir Fischer. “Transatlantischer Heiratsmarkt und Heiratspolitik von MigrantInnen aus Österreich-Ungarn in den USA, 1870–1930.” L’Homme. Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 25, no. 1 (2014): 51–68.

Upcoming are sample entries from the database. The database contains thousands of personal entries from several times and places: Vienna around 1800, Vienna around 1900, Pittsburgh and Chicago in the early 1900s.

»Identity Management and Infrastructures of Migrants from Austria-Hungary in the USA around 1900«

Presentation held in German at the conference:

Lokale Migrationsregime / Migrationsregime vor Ort. Conference of the Gesellschaft für Historische Migrationsforschung (GHM) in cooperation with Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück. October 1–3, 2013.

»Identitätsmanagement und Infrastrukturen von Migranten aus Österreich-Ungarn in den USA um 1900«

Lokale Migrationsregime / Migrationsregime vor Ort. Tagung der Gesellschaft für Historische Migrationsforschung (GHM) in Kooperation mit dem Institut für Migrationsforschung und Interkulturelle Studien (IMIS) der Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück, 1.–3. Oktober, 2013.

Understanding the Transatlantic Migration Experience. MigrantInnen aus Österreich-Ungarn in den USA, 1870-1950

Annemarie Steidl / Wladimir Fischer, Kommentar: Franz X. Eder

5. Dezember 2012, wisokolloquium,  Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, Universität Wien

Understanding the Transatlantic Migration Experience. MigrantInnen aus Österreich-Ungarn in den USA, 1870–1950

Annemarie Steidl / Wladimir Fischer. Respondent: Franz X. Eder

December 5, 2012, wisokolloquium-seminary series,  Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, University of Wien

»Migrants From Austria-Hungary In The USA: A Transatlantic Perspective«

Presentation held in German together with Annemarie Steidl at the conference:

Migrations- und Integrationsforschung in Österreich. 2. Jahrestagung,  September 18–19, 2012, Austrian Academy of Sciences/University of Vienna.