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Where is my home?; Slovak Immigration to North America (1870-2010)

Where is my home?; Slovak Immigration to North America (1870-2010)

Stolarik, Mark
Klemencic, Matjaz
Stolarik, Mark

Paperback

Series: Immigration from Europe to North America, Book 1

Anthropology20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 3034311699
ISBN13: 9783034311694
Publisher: Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic P
Published: Oct 17 2012
Pages: 394
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Between 1870 and 2010 over half a million Slovaks migrated to the USA and Canada. As other ethnic groups from East Central Europe, they headed principally to the industrial triangle of the USA and to central Canada's cities in search of work. Finding themselves in strange surroundings, they quickly established institutions that helped them to survive in a capitalist economy and to also preserve their religion, language and culture. As for many other ethnic groups, the border between the USA and Canada was to them irrelevant. Slovaks crossed it according to economic need and stayed in touch with each other. Meanwhile, they also remained in touch with their families in Europe and helped their people to survive Magyarization in Austria-Hungary, to achieve self-determination in the new Republic of Czechoslovakia and, finally, independence.

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