Emigrarea unor ţărani români din judeţul Sibiu în S.U.A., reflectată în presa transilvăneană din 1900–1914
The massive immigration from all Eastern Europe, Italy, Russia, Turkey, Greece, Arab countries to The United States of America (1900-1914)

Summary/Abstract: Last decades of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth one are marked by massive immigration from all Eastern Europe, Italy, Russia, Turkey, Greece, Arab countries to The United States of America, because of poverty and political persecution in their native countries. The Romanian villagers from Transylvania were part of this exodus, known as one of the largest migration waves in history. There were a lot of difficulties these people went through: they could not afford to pay for their journey both by train and ship, the policy of the authorities in their native countries was to punish them for illegal emigration, therefore they were very exposed and even risked their lives in order to get to America. And last, but not least, their journey on land and mostly on sea lasted for about one month, a natural selection becoming thus one of the most important items of this historical event of emigration. It is a story about groups of people who did everything they could to fulfill a dream: the American Dream. The Romanians from Transylvania, Banat, Bucovina began their emigration process around 1900 until the outburst of the First World War, the first wave. Up to 1914 the statistics revealed about 100.000 people originated from the former Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Most of them never returned home. The Romanian communities from American cities like: Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago were formed by these first immigrants.

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