Lithuanian migration to America

Before starting my little study, I would like to give some numbers on emigration to start with.
Lithuanians started to migrate to America in the late 19th century. It was a big flow of emigration, considering the small size of the country. About 300.000 Lithuanians migrated to US before the WWI and about 35.000 in the inter-war period (Rackauskas; 1967). Emigration of Lithuanians in the inter-war period was mostly headed to South American countries as Brazil and Argentina. Emigration to South America was also massive and encountered about 50.000 migrants (Eidintas; 1989:12). If add the first wave emigration of 300.000 with the second wave of total amount of over 1.000.000 emigrants we get the incredible number of 1.300.000 emigrants. And this is not the complete numbers, because American immigration services often labeled Lithuanians either as Poles or Russians (Sipaviciene; 1997). Another important reason is that many migrants lacked their actual identification papers (Sipaviciene; 1997).
To understand the reasons of emigration to Americas, it is important to know the conditions that Lithuanian people lived upon in the given period of time. In 1795, Lithuania was annexed to Russia, and from 1795 to 1918, the whole of the country was ruled by strangers. During that time period, Napoleon troops invaded Lithuania and there was an uprising against Russia. In 1831, the Lithuanian press and script was banned and the Russian alphabet was introduced. Lithuanian men were forced to do long military service in the army of their invaders. These are the main political reasons. There were also the economic reasons. The industries and economics of the country developed way too slowly. Birth rate was too high which lead to high population density (demographic issues). Underdeveloped agriculture was the most common occupation of that time. This in 1868 eventually lead to mass starvation (Mikelionis; 1999:...

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