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4 unusual facts about Emigration


Agnam Lidoubé

The village is the birthplace of the film director Alassane Diago and the setting for his film Les larmes de l'émigration.

Béla Babai

Babai was born in Hungary and emigrated to the United States late 1930s, where he became famous as "The King of the Gypsy Violin".

Les larmes de l'émigration

After a two-year absence, Alassane Diago returns to Agnam Lidoubé, a Senegalese village in the Fouta region, to try and understand why and how his mother has spent all these years waiting.

Xanthis

Following the mass exodus of Castellorizians from the effects and damage of the war to Australia, many people currently have links to the name all over the country (an amazing feat since it comes from such a small island with less than 300 in population).


2010 student protests

2010 student protest in Dublin, a demonstration opposing a proposed increase in university registration fees, further cuts to the student maintenance grant and increasing graduate unemployment and emigration levels from Ireland

Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

The Verein was responsible for the large emigration of Germans to Texas in the 19th Century, and on January 9, 1843, established the 4,428 acre Nassau Plantation in Fayette County, Texas and named it after the Grand Duke.

Aliyah Bet

Several UNRRA officials (in particular Elizabeth Robertson in Leipheim) acted as facilitators of the emigration.

August von Bibra

The Verein zum Schutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas was an emigration enterprise first organized by a group of German noblemen in 1842 that resulted in the founding of New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, and other German communities in Texas.

Balgarevo

Later in mid-19th century large families from Kotel, Elena and Yambol regions follow the 'emigration flow' from inner Bulgaria to Dobrudja and settled in the village.

Ballinascarty

Henry's father, William, and grandfather, John, were born in Ballinascarty before their emigration to Detroit, Michigan, USA.

Bilu

The wave of pogroms of 1881–1884 and anti-Semitic May Laws of 1882 introduced by Tsar Alexander III of Russia prompted mass emigration of Jews from the Russian Empire.

Bundism

After the 1936 Warsaw kehilla elections, Henryk Ehrlich created an incident by accusing Zionist leaders Yitzhak Gruenbaum and Ze'ev Jabotinsky of being responsible for recent anti-Semitic agitation in Poland by their campaign urging Jewish emigration therefrom.

Canadians of Welsh descent

One of the first efforts to encourage Welsh emigration to Canada began in 1812, when Welsh native John Mathews endeavoured to bring his family to Canada.

Christopher Hely-Hutchinson

He voted in favour of Sir Francis Burdett's plan of parliamentary reform, and one of the last speeches he made was directed against emigration to Canada as a panacea for Irish distress.

Colony of Vancouver Island

The result was that emigration was slow, and the landless labourers frequently fled the colony either to obtain free land grants in the United States, or work the newly discovered goldfields of California.

Economy of Saint Helena

A campaign is currently underway (reported on BBC Radio 4, Today programme, 10 July 2004) to encourage emigration from the UK to Saint Helena to aid development of the economy.

Edwin Stanley Brookes, Jnr.

He was the eldest son of the Rev. E. S. Brookes, Snr., who was one of the leaders of the Nonconformist Emigration Association and founders of the Albertland Special Settlement at Kaipara, Auckland in 1862.

Eileen Naseby

The biography tells the compelling story of her escape from the Nazi regime, her closseted upbringing in Palestine, her love affairs with the adventurer and writer Laurens van der Post and others, and her eventual emigration with the baby Eileen and her new husband Nigel - a gentle idealist - to an outback Queensland dairy farm.

Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews

Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews was the title of a national march and political rally that was held on December 6, 1987 in Washington, D.C. An estimated 250,000 participants gathered on the National Mall, calling for U.S.S.R. President Gorbachev to extend his policy of Glasnost to Soviet Jews by putting an end to their forced assimilation and allowing their emigration from the Soviet Union.

Guadalupe Miranda

In 1853 he was appointed Commissioner of Emigration to help Mexican citizens relocate from New Mexico including the movement to Mesilla, New Mexico, which was then in Mexico, replacing Father Ramón Ortiz.

History of mining in Sardinia

In the 1930s there was extensive emigration from the mainland during the Fascist government when people from Veneto but also from Marche, Abruzzo and Sicily came to Sardinia to populate the new mining towns founded in the Sulcis-Iglesiente region such as Carbonia and Cortoghiana.

I for India

The film also includes footage of various British TV programmes of its era regarding Asian emigrants (perceived as naively patronising), also incorporating part of an interview featuring Margaret Thatcher's views on emigration shortly before she became British Prime Minister.

Ibrahim Sirkeci

He authored several books including Cultures of Migration published by University of Texas Press in 2011, and The Environment of Insecurity in Turkey and the Emigration of Turkish Kurds to Germany, was published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2006.

Illegal emigration

After the erection of the Berlin Wall in 1961, emigration except for ethnic migration reasons mostly halted from east-to-west, though a few thousand escape attempts from East Germany occurred, including those by defecting border guards.

Irish League of Credit Unions

The economy of the Republic was depressed, urban poverty and emigration were increasing, and the credit union movement was envisaged as a way to help working-class people manage their finances.

Ivan Ilyin

He became the main ideologue of the Russian White movement in emigration and between 1927 and 1930 was a publisher and editor of the Russian-language journal Kolokol (Bell).

Jewish Museum, Emmendingen

Emma Schwarz: Emmendingen - Gurs - Johannesburg, a Jewish woman from Emmendingen writes about her life under the Nazi regime and her later emigration with her son to South Africa.

Jordanes

He lets the history of the Goths commence with the emigration of Berig with three ships from Scandza to Gothiscandza (25, 94), in a distant past.

Katinka Kendeffy

She married Count Gyula Andrássy de Csíkszentkirály et Krasznahorka in Paris, on 9 July 1856, when Andrássy lived in emigration after defeat of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

Kingdom of Champasak

In 1718, a Lao emigration in the company of an official in the service of King Nokasad founded Muang Suwannaphum as the first recorded population of Lao in the Chi River valley—indeed anywhere in the interior of the plateau.

Kotli

Like many Azad Kashmiris (Poonch valley - a region found in the Jammu part of Jammu and Kashmir) living in the fringes of the Mangla Dam in Mirpur, emigration fever took hold of the surrounding country from the mid 1950s onwards.

Lake Point, Utah

The US Army sent Captain Howard Stansbury to the area in 1849 to evaluate emigration trails and scout for possible passages for a transcontinental railroad.

Longobucco

Emigration to the United States and Argentina reached its peak at this time as Longobucchesi such as the Gammuto family sought to escape poverty and the brigantaggio to find opportunity in the new world.

Manuel Bulnes

Germans were targeted to colonise the hitherto very sparsely inhabited southern part of Chile in the wake of the 1848 revolutions which provided an impetus for emigration from the European perspective.

Oia, Greece

However, the arrival of steam and the concentration of shipping at Piraeus caused the town's seagoing trade to collapse, and agriculture also diminished as increasing emigration took place, especially to Piraeus and Laurium.

Pougny

Besides, Pougny is the surname of the Russian-French painter Ivan Puni (Jean Pougny, 1892-1956), that he has adopted after his emigration to France in 1923-1924.

Romanisches Café

The coming to power of the Nazi Party and the subsequent emigration of most of its regulars signalled the final end of the café as an artists' haunt.

Rudolf Luneburg

Rudolf Karl Lüneburg (30 March 1903, Volkersheim (Bockenem) - 19 August 1949, Great Falls, Montana), after his emigration at first Lueneburg, later Luneburg, falsified Luneberg) was a professor of mathematics and optics at the Dartmouth College Eye Institute.

Spicciati

Emigration has occurred mostly to the United States, with a focus to Central New York, California, and Florida.

Susquehanna Pfaltzgraff

The Susquehanna Pfaltzgraff Company was a conglomerate of companies that started in the 19th century with Johann George Pfaltzgraff's emigration from Germany to York, Pennsylvania (in the Susquehanna Valley).

Territorialism

The Jewish Colonization Association, created in 1891 by the Baron Maurice de Hirsch, was aimed at facilitating mass emigration of Jews from Russia and other Eastern European countries, by settling them in agricultural colonies on lands purchased by the committee, particularly in North and South America (especially Argentina).

Tibetan diaspora

Tibetan emigration happened in two waves: one in 1959 following the 14th Dalai Lama's self-exile in India, and the other in the 1980s when Tibet was opened to trade and tourism.

Varapodio

Varapodio experienced significant levels of emigration during the 1950s to 1960s, with communities of emigrants settling in Northern Italy, the United States, Canada and within Australia, principally Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Cobram, Shepparton and Swan Hill.

Verna Susannah Coleman

Coleman documented her extraordinary career following her emigration to Australia, where she became prominent at both ends of the political spectrum, moving from the Communist Party and to the far right Australia First movement.

Wiele, Pomeranian Voivodeship

The most famous of Winona's immigrants from Wiele was Hieronim Derdowski, famed Kashubian poet and, after emigration to the United States, editor of the Winona Polish-language newspaper Wiarus.

Zianon Pazniak

Pavel Sheremet thinks that Pazniak was an intolerant and a rough politician and his emigration was cowardice.


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