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1	Emigration och immigration : En kvantitativ studie om Växjö stadsförsamlings utvandring och invandring mellan åren 1895–1924 / Emigration and immigration : A quantitative study of Växjö City Council’s emigration and immigration between the years 1895–1924 Oguz, Simon, Liljegren, Alfred January 2023 (has links) The succeeding study aims to analyze as well as enlighten, what kind of people that emigrated from Växjö city council to North America during three intervals, 1895–1904, 1905–1914 and1915–1924. It will be analyzed through five variables: gender, age, marital status, profession and furthermore class affiliation. The empirical material has been gathered through three various sources, the database EmiWeb, the digital database Riksarkivet and the Swedish Central Bureau of Statistics. As stated before, this study's main issue is to study emigration, but it also analyzes the immigration from North America to Växjö city council during thes ame intervals and through the same variables. The outcome of the empiric material showed that it was mostly women who emigrated to North America. Given their ages, the result is that unmarried people between the ages 10–29 was a big majority of the emigrants whereas the older ages and married people were very few. Granted, most of them were workers, for instance craftsmen and industrial workers. Through an occupational classification, it was possible to deduce that the working class was the largest class affiliation. Migration emigration immigration/reimmigration class affiliation Växjö Sweden North America Migration emigration immigration/återvandring klasstillhörighet Växjö Sverige Nordamerika History Historia

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Emigration och immigration : En kvantitativ studie om Växjö stadsförsamlings utvandring och invandring mellan åren 1895–1924 / Emigration and immigration : A quantitative study of Växjö City Council’s emigration and immigration between the years 1895–1924