Presa imigrației româno-maghiare în America
Romanian-Hungarian immigration press in America

Summary/Abstract: In the research we conducted, we aimed to identify emigration newspapers, so that according to them we can make a mapping of immigrant communities and their main areas of interest. Since we are researching both the migration phenomenon of Romanians and Hungarians from the west of present‑day Transylvania, our research includes both ethnic groups, trying a comparative analysis of them. In the appendix we publish the newspaper headlines that we managed to identify during the research.The research of the publications shows that the Hungarian emigration press was more diversified than the Romanian emigrant press and was a priority on the principles of market economy, while the Romanian one was mainly grouped around churches and had a more pronounced confessional accent. The number of Hungarian publications was higher, and Hungarian‑language newspapers were spread over a wider territory. In many cases, publishing newspapers was the prerogative of a single person and not of a group of investors, which led to the sporadic nature of some publications, conditioned by the material situation of the owner.The emigration press had a well‑developed patriotic component, also addressing local current issues in the hometowns of emigrants. Concentrations of intellectuals were created around some newspapers, with firm opinions, most often critical of the „home” situation. These publications also represented a forum for the Transylvanian elite to address emigrants. Newspapers lobbied, in some cases, to support the national cause of those at home, either in the run‑up to or during the Great Union (Romanian press) or during the Trianon Treaty and its decisions (the Hungarian press, noting that and the Romanian press closely followed the evolution of the debates in Paris and pleaded the Romanian cause).

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