Abstract

AbstractA high number of migrants returned from their transatlantic sojourn to their native Hungary between the 1880s and the 1930s. Despite being pauperised and marginalised in the United States, they encountered norms and mechanisms of a democratic society and cultural patterns unknown to the rural society they hailed from. Upon returning, they implemented some of these practices. The paper investigates the durability of this cultural change and argues that the transatlantic transmission of norms was outweighed in significance by internal, regional movements.

Highlights

  • Somewhere in provincial Hungary in the early 1900s, a district sheriff slapped a man who had approached him with a petty issue

  • Homecoming migrants— regardless of whether they returned from the factories and mines of the East Coast and Midwest with sufficient funds to renew their lives in their native communities or came home failed, penniless, and with ruined health—would have encountered patterns of behaviour, material and immaterial culture, and values in politics, religion, and economics that sharply differed from their life-world back in rural Europe

  • What kind of social remittances homecoming migrants brought from the United States to Hungary, one of the countries most massively involved in transatlantic migration from the 1880s to the early 1920s, how these were implemented upon return, and how this transfer of norms did transform their environment is the subject of this study

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Somewhere in provincial Hungary in the early 1900s, a district sheriff slapped a man who had approached him with a petty issue.

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