Globalizáció és nemzetépítési törekvések szorításában
Between Globalization and Nation Building.

A Century of Migration History of Transylvania’s Ethnic Hungarians

Summary/Abstract: Though historically this region of Europe was source and destination region for considerably large flows of migration, starting with the second half of the nineteenth century massive flows of outmigration from Transylvania were registered. The massive outflows were in relation both with the semi-peripheral position of this region within the expanding economic world system, the nation building strategies of the post First World War era, the failure of socialism as an economic system, and the reintegration of this region in the global economic system. Within this period of radical reconfiguration, ethnicity played a major role both in engendering and structuring emigration. The article represents a short review of these flows, (not exclusively) focusing on the mobility processes involving and affecting the ethnic Hungarian population of this historical province.

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