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Table 7.7
Decade Trieste Other Total N
Emigration from the municip.
Tomaj Curacy to Trieste − . . .
and Other Destinations
(1830–1959) − . . .
− . . .
Notes In percent. Based
on data from šak, žat, − . . .
sa. − . . .
− . . .
− . . .
− . . .
− . . .
− . . .
− . . .
− . . .
− . . .
Total . . .
Table 7.8 Emigration from the Tomaj Curacy by Destination (1830−1919)
Decade Trieste Imper. Ameri- Other Total N
municip. Austria cas
− . . . . .
− . . . . .
− . . . . .
− . . . . .
− . . . . .
− . . . . .
− . . . . .
− . . . . .
− . . . . .
Total . . . . .
Notes In percent. Based on data from šak, žat, sa.
Here the labour market offered significantly higher wages and employ-
ment opportunities than in Trieste or elsewhere in the monarchy. Some
individuals also migratedtoEgypt,Italy,Hungary,and even farawayAus-
tralia.
With the transition of the area under the Kingdom of Italy after the
First World War, the emigration trajectories shifted; the moves were driv-
en also by fascist coercive Italianization and persecution of the Slovene
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