Annemarie Steidl – författare

On Many Routes is about the history of human migration. With a focus on the Habsburg Empire, this innovative work presents an integrated and creative study of spatial mobilities: from short to long term, and intranational and inter-European to transatlantic. Migration was not just relegated to city folk, but likewise was the reality for rural dwellers, and we gain a better understanding of how sending and receiving states and shipping companies worked together to regulate migration and shape populations.Bringing historical census data, governmental statistics, and ship manifests into conversation with centuries-old migration patterns of servants, agricultural workers, seasonal laborers, peddlers, and artisans-both male and female-this research argues that Central Europeans have long been mobile, that this mobility has been driven by diverse motivations, and that post-1850 transatlantic migration was an obvious extension of earlier spatial mobility patterns. Demonstrating the complexity of human mobility via an exploration of the links between overseas, continental, and internal migrations, On Many Routes shows that migrations to the United States, to the nearest coalfield, and to the urban capitals are embedded within complicated patterns of movement. There is no good reason to study internal apart from transnational moves, and combining these fields brings ample possibility to make migration research more relevant for the much broader field of social and economic history. This work poses an invaluable resource to the understudied area of Habsburg Empire migration studies, which it relocates within its wider European context and provides a major methodological contribution to the history of human migration more broadly. The ubiquity and functionality of human movement sheds light on the relationship between human nature and society, and challenges simplistic notions of human mobility then and now.

A Transatlantic ExperienceThe 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.Multiethnic GroupsThe socio-economic, demographic, and cultural analyses presented in this book offer a much more differentiated picture of the migrants who struggled for new living space amidst hostile industrial environments. This study breaks new ground by examining migration broadly between the Habsburg Monarchy and North America and return migration to Central Europe, including the study of a variety of ethnic and religious groups who originated in different regions.This book offers a scientific investigation of the circumstances under which Austro-Hungarians migrated to the United States in order to find new opportunities while trying to keep up their traditional values.

The series will document the far-reaching changes that have taken place both in migration behavior and in research. Migration is a global phenomenon with lasting consequences for target countries in Europe and North America. Interaction between locals and migrants creates new forms of cultural expression - métissage, mixté, hybridity. Migration, whether voluntary, forced by economic, ecological, social or political conditions or refugee migration / displacement, requires functioning, survival, living in diverse cultural spaces (ie: not international or transnational but transcultural). The target companies also change, both processes influence each other. Exchange processes are examined. Sub-state regional socialization processes, family economies and migration traditions as well as new options influence migration decisions of men, women and sometimes. children; Supra-state economic regions and economic sectors set the framework for destinations. Migrants move in numerous cultural environments at the same time: location, social network of the starting region, economic sector, whether local or global, and future-oriented in the locations of further migrations. Nation-states of the old type only play a border-pulling role, states of the new type offer a policy of admission and integration that is oriented towards overall social objectives. Classic paradigms of migration research, such as migration from a nation state to the corresponding ethno-national enclave of an immigration country, had to be revised. Gender issues (eg: The role of men in displacement, the role of women in securing survival and building networks after migration processes) require special attention. This series publishes studies on migration and acculturation in their diverse, ethnic, diasporic, but above all transcultural manifestations, in German and English with abstracts in the other language.