The Migration Trajectories of Poles and Jews from Rzeszów to the United States at the Turn of the 20th Century – Shared or Divergent Routes?

Joanna  Kulpińska; Przemysław Mitka; Aleksandra Tutko; Julia Dural

doi:10.18778/8331-033-6

The Migration Trajectories of Poles and Jews from Rzeszów to the United States at the Turn of the 20th Century – Shared or Divergent Routes?

Joanna Kulpińska

Jagiellonian University, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Department of American Studies and Polish Diaspora

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7923-2426 (unauthenticated)

Przemysław Mitka

Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Sociology

Aleksandra Tutko

Stockholm University, Department of Social Anthropology

Julia Dural

Jagiellonian University, Faculty of International and Political Studies, Department of American Studies and Polish Diaspora

Publication:

Migrations in the Slavic Cultural Space. From the Middle Ages to the Present Day

Series: Series Ceranea

Pages: 141-157

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8331-033-6.10

Keywords: migracja, migracja etnosu serbskiego w XVI-XIII wieku, historia Słowian południowych zachodnich wschodnich, asymilacja, emigracja w literaturze

Published: 30 December 2022

Categories: History, Open Access

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The aim of the paper is to compare the migration streams of Poles and Jews from Rzeszów to the United States at the turn of the 20^th century. The article is part of a project carried out within the framework of the Jagiellonian University’s Program of Excellence – POB Heritage, whose main goal is to indicate the specificity of emigration from urban communities at the beginning of the 20^th century on the example of Rzeszów. The analysis was conducted in a comparative perspective both on the synchronic level, comparing the structure and mechanisms of migration of different ethnic groups living in Rzeszów at the turn of the 19^th and 20^th centuries, and at the diachronic level, reconstructing the migration time trends of the city’s inhabitants. The Polish and Jewish migration routes were compared in terms of socio-demographic data, structure of migration networks, and adaptation strategies in the host country. The presented analysis is based on the data from the Ellis Island Archive’s ship passenger lists. Information was collected on over 1500 immigrants who arrived from Rzeszów to the United States between 1884 and 1924.

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Kulpińska, Joanna, Przemysław Mitka, Aleksandra Tutko, and Julia Dural. 2022. “The Migration Trajectories of Poles and Jews from Rzeszów to the United States at the Turn of the 20th Century – Shared or Divergent Routes?”. In Migrations in the Slavic Cultural Space. From the Middle Ages to the Present Day, edited by Zofia A. Brzozowska, Piotr Kręzel, and Izabela Lis-Wielgosz, 10:141-57. Series Ceranea. Poland: Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8331-033-6.10.