Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2016
The article investigates the relations among internal, Continental, andtransatlantic migration in late imperial Austria by combining information frompassenger records of ships to the United States and internal district-levelmigration data from the Austrian census. Combined with other statisticalsources, a snapshot of migration to the United States is provided in the contextof long-standing patterns of internal and Continental migration and the changingsocioeconomic structures of the empire. The relationships between internal andtransatlantic movements and the determinants of migration to the United Statesare analyzed by means of regression analysis. In late imperial Austria internalmobility was negatively related to transatlantic migration. This suggests theexistence of different migration systems with different patterns of internal,Continental, and transatlantic migration.