The history of Central and Eastern Europe was shaped by migrations in a major way. The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was one of the top ten countries that contributed most significantly to American immigration. An estimated 3.5-4 million citizens of the former Habsburg Monarchy left for the U.S. and subsequent waves of emigrants changed the social composition of Central Europe in a definitive way. After the mass migrations of the fin-de-siècle between the 1880s and World War I an important group of professionals and intellectuals left in the 1920s and 1930s contributing to the growth of American civilization. The U.S. also provided shelter to various groups of Eastern European citizens in the Cold War period.
Learning outcomes:
Students will be able to
* contrast and compare the various intricacies of immigration terminology
* explain and debate transatlantic social mobility
* identify and debate about the Austro-Hungarian contribution to US labor force
* develop a deeper awareness of the concept of brain drain
Method of presentation:
Lectures and organized discussions
Required work and form of assessment:
Course Requirements
(1) Mid-term exam (identifications of terms, names, dates; map quiz; essay question)
(2) 12-15 page paper
(3) Final exam (identifications of terms, names, dates; map quiz; essay question)
Grading: Class participation 10%, mid-term exam 30%, paper 30%, final exam 30%
Attendance: See the IES Abroad Vienna policy as stated in the Vienna Student Handbook
content:
Week I The Age of Migrations
Koser (full text), Yans-McLaughlin, ed. 187-238
Discussion: How to Write a Research Paper?
Where to Do Research: The Libraries of Vienna
Week II The Social Construction of Austro-Hungarian Emigration
Puskás 3-103, Frank 21-78
Week III Changing Patterns of U.S. Immigrations Policies in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Dinnerstein-Reimers 15-84, Yans-McLaughlin, ed. 37-75,
Archdeacon 57-142
Week IV From the Literacy Bill to the Quota Laws of 1921 and 1924
The Impact of U.S. Immigration Policies on the U.S. and on Central Europe
Tezla 149-219, Dinnerstein—Nichols—Reimers 93-144, Archdeacon 143-172
Week V The Effect of the Quota Laws, 1924-1965
Capaldi, ed. 117-154, Dinnerstein—Reimers 63-106, Archdeacon 202-235
Mid-Term Exam
Week VI World War I, the Peace Treaties of Paris and Migrations in and from Central Europe
Macmillan 3-49, 83-97, 207-270, 459-483, Frank 79-120
Week VII Professional and Intellectual Immigration into the U.S.
Congdon 3-42, Frank 167-241, Wyman (1985) 3-26, 184-222, Wyman (1984) 61-142
Week VIII The Effects of World War II:
The Cold War and its Impact on Emigration from “Eastern” Europe
Capaldi, ed. 161-249, Dinnerstein—Reimers 85-106, Brimelow 25-114
Congdon, Lee. Exile and Social Thought. Hungarian Intellectuals in Germany and Austria 1919-1933. Princeton University Press, 1991.
Dinnerstein, Leonard and David M. Reimers, Ethnic Americans. A History of Immigration. 3rd ed. HarperCollins, 1988.
Dinnerstein, Leonard, Roger L. Nichols, David M. Reimers. Natives and Strangers. A Multicultural History of Americans. 4th ed. New York—Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Frank, Tibor. Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States, 1919-1945. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009.
Koser, Khalid. International Migration. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2007. MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919. New York: Random House, 2002.
Portes, Alejandro and Rubén C. Rumbaut. Immigrant America: A Portrait. 2nd ed. Berkeley—Los
Angeles—London: University of California Press, 1996.
Puskás Julianna. Ties That Bind, Ties That Divide: One Hundred Years of Hungarian Experience in the United States. New York—London: Holmes & Meier, 2000.
Reimers, David M. Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Tezla, Albert, ed. The Hazardous Quest. Hungarian Immigrants in the United States 1895-1920.
Budapest: Corvina, 1993.
Wyman, David S. Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis 1938-1941. New York: Pantheon, 1985. Wyman, David S. The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945. New York: Pantheon, 1984.
Wyman, Mark. Round-Trip to America. The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880-1930. Ithaca—London: Cornell University Press, 1993.
Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia, ed. Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, and Politics. New York— Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1900.
Brief Biography of Instructor:
Tibor Frank (b. 1948) is professor of history and director of the School of English and American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary (1994-2001, 2006-) where he is head of the PhD program in American Studies. He has been doing research on transatlantic relations, international migrations, imagology, and historiography. He was a Fulbright visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and at UCLA (1987-1990), the University of Nevada-Reno (1990-91), and a visiting professor at the Deák Chair of Columbia University (2001, 2007, 2010). Recipient of the Humboldt Award, he spent the academic year 2003-
04 in Berlin at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. He is a corresponding fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London, 2006-), and a board member of Historical Abstracts (Santa Barbara−Oxford, 1989-93, 2000-), Nationalities Papers (New York, 1989-2009), Polanyiana (Budapest, 1994-), Appraisal (2010-), and the European Journal of American Culture (Nottingham, England, 1998-). His recent books include From Habsburg Agent to Victorian Scholar: G. G. Zerffi 1820-1892 (New York, 2000, Japanese ed. Tokyo, 1994; German ed.: Wien−Köln−Weimar, 2002); (ed.), Discussing Hitler: Advisers of U.S. Diplomacy in Central Europe, 1934-1941 (Budapest−New York, 2003); Picturing Austria-Hungary: The British Perception of the Habsburg Monarchy 1865-1870 (New York, 2005); ハンガリー西欧幻想の罠―戦間期の親英米派と領土問題 Hangarii Seiou-Gensou no Wana – Senkanki no Kaneibeiha to Ryoudomondai [Hungary Trapped in Western Illusions – Anglophiles and treaty revision during World War II] (Tokyo, 2008); (ed.), Zwischen Roosevelt und Hitler. Die Geheimgespräche eines amerikanischen Diplomaten in Budapest 1934-1941 (Berlin, 2009); Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish- Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States 1919-1945 (Oxford, 2009); (ed. with Frank Hadler), Disputed Territories and Shared Pasts: Overlapping National Histories in Modern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
The history of Central and Eastern Europe was shaped by migrations in a major way. The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was one of the top ten countries that contributed most significantly to American immigration. An estimated 3.5-4 million citizens of the former Habsburg Monarchy left for the U.S. and subsequent waves of emigrants changed the social composition of Central Europe in a definitive way. After the mass migrations of the fin-de-siècle between the 1880s and World War I an important group of professionals and intellectuals left in the 1920s and 1930s contributing to the growth of American civilization. The U.S. also provided shelter to various groups of Eastern European citizens in the Cold War period.
Students will be able to
* contrast and compare the various intricacies of immigration terminology
* explain and debate transatlantic social mobility
* identify and debate about the Austro-Hungarian contribution to US labor force
* develop a deeper awareness of the concept of brain drain
Lectures and organized discussions
Course Requirements
(1) Mid-term exam (identifications of terms, names, dates; map quiz; essay question)
(2) 12-15 page paper
(3) Final exam (identifications of terms, names, dates; map quiz; essay question)
Grading: Class participation 10%, mid-term exam 30%, paper 30%, final exam 30%
Attendance: See the IES Abroad Vienna policy as stated in the Vienna Student Handbook
Week I The Age of Migrations
Koser (full text), Yans-McLaughlin, ed. 187-238
Discussion: How to Write a Research Paper?
Where to Do Research: The Libraries of Vienna
Week II The Social Construction of Austro-Hungarian Emigration
Puskás 3-103, Frank 21-78
Week III Changing Patterns of U.S. Immigrations Policies in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Dinnerstein-Reimers 15-84, Yans-McLaughlin, ed. 37-75,
Archdeacon 57-142
Week IV From the Literacy Bill to the Quota Laws of 1921 and 1924
The Impact of U.S. Immigration Policies on the U.S. and on Central Europe
Tezla 149-219, Dinnerstein—Nichols—Reimers 93-144, Archdeacon 143-172
Week V The Effect of the Quota Laws, 1924-1965
Capaldi, ed. 117-154, Dinnerstein—Reimers 63-106, Archdeacon 202-235
Mid-Term Exam
Week VI World War I, the Peace Treaties of Paris and Migrations in and from Central Europe
Macmillan 3-49, 83-97, 207-270, 459-483, Frank 79-120
Week VII Professional and Intellectual Immigration into the U.S.
Congdon 3-42, Frank 167-241, Wyman (1985) 3-26, 184-222, Wyman (1984) 61-142
Week VIII The Effects of World War II:
The Cold War and its Impact on Emigration from “Eastern” Europe
Capaldi, ed. 161-249, Dinnerstein—Reimers 85-106, Brimelow 25-114
Week IX Identities, Assimilation, Multiculturalism
Reimers 109-154, Dinnerstein—Nichols—Reimers 245-278, Dinnerstein—Reimers 173-193, Capaldi, ed. 253-322
Week X Recent Immigration from Europe
Dinnerstein—Nichols—Reimers 194-282, Portes—Rumbaut 269-300
Final Exam
Archdeacon, Thomas J. Becoming American. An Ethnic History. New York: The Free Press, 1983.
Brimelow, Peter. Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster. HarperPerennial, 1996.
Capaldi, Nicholas, ed. Immigration: Debating the Issues. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1997.
Congdon, Lee. Exile and Social Thought. Hungarian Intellectuals in Germany and Austria 1919-1933. Princeton University Press, 1991.
Dinnerstein, Leonard and David M. Reimers, Ethnic Americans. A History of Immigration. 3rd ed. HarperCollins, 1988.
Dinnerstein, Leonard, Roger L. Nichols, David M. Reimers. Natives and Strangers. A Multicultural History of Americans. 4th ed. New York—Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Frank, Tibor. Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish-Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States, 1919-1945. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009.
Koser, Khalid. International Migration. A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2007. MacMillan, Margaret. Paris 1919. New York: Random House, 2002.
Portes, Alejandro and Rubén C. Rumbaut. Immigrant America: A Portrait. 2nd ed. Berkeley—Los
Angeles—London: University of California Press, 1996.
Puskás Julianna. Ties That Bind, Ties That Divide: One Hundred Years of Hungarian Experience in the United States. New York—London: Holmes & Meier, 2000.
Reimers, David M. Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Tezla, Albert, ed. The Hazardous Quest. Hungarian Immigrants in the United States 1895-1920.
Budapest: Corvina, 1993.
Wyman, David S. Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis 1938-1941. New York: Pantheon, 1985. Wyman, David S. The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945. New York: Pantheon, 1984.
Wyman, Mark. Round-Trip to America. The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880-1930. Ithaca—London: Cornell University Press, 1993.
Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia, ed. Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, and Politics. New York— Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1900.
Tibor Frank (b. 1948) is professor of history and director of the School of English and American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary (1994-2001, 2006-) where he is head of the PhD program in American Studies. He has been doing research on transatlantic relations, international migrations, imagology, and historiography. He was a Fulbright visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and at UCLA (1987-1990), the University of Nevada-Reno (1990-91), and a visiting professor at the Deák Chair of Columbia University (2001, 2007, 2010). Recipient of the Humboldt Award, he spent the academic year 2003-
04 in Berlin at the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. He is a corresponding fellow of the Royal Historical Society (London, 2006-), and a board member of Historical Abstracts (Santa Barbara−Oxford, 1989-93, 2000-), Nationalities Papers (New York, 1989-2009), Polanyiana (Budapest, 1994-), Appraisal (2010-), and the European Journal of American Culture (Nottingham, England, 1998-). His recent books include From Habsburg Agent to Victorian Scholar: G. G. Zerffi 1820-1892 (New York, 2000, Japanese ed. Tokyo, 1994; German ed.: Wien−Köln−Weimar, 2002); (ed.), Discussing Hitler: Advisers of U.S. Diplomacy in Central Europe, 1934-1941 (Budapest−New York, 2003); Picturing Austria-Hungary: The British Perception of the Habsburg Monarchy 1865-1870 (New York, 2005); ハンガリー西欧幻想の罠―戦間期の親英米派と領土問題 Hangarii Seiou-Gensou no Wana – Senkanki no Kaneibeiha to Ryoudomondai [Hungary Trapped in Western Illusions – Anglophiles and treaty revision during World War II] (Tokyo, 2008); (ed.), Zwischen Roosevelt und Hitler. Die Geheimgespräche eines amerikanischen Diplomaten in Budapest 1934-1941 (Berlin, 2009); Double Exile: Migrations of Jewish- Hungarian Professionals through Germany to the United States 1919-1945 (Oxford, 2009); (ed. with Frank Hadler), Disputed Territories and Shared Pasts: Overlapping National Histories in Modern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
E-mail: tzsbe@hu.inter.net
Web: www.franktibor.hu