Cities and Overseas Migration: Vienna and Budapest in the Late Nineteenth Century

What is it about?

The article analyses analyses how railway stations and the neighbouring areas accommodated shipping agencies, lodging houses, police detention centres and the local enterprise that helped to direct – facilitate or restrict – overseas migration through fin-de-siècle Vienna and Budapest in the nineteenth century.

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Why is it important?

The role of Vienna and Budapest in nineteenth-century overseas migration has so far been neglected.