Danish Immigration to Racine County, Wisconsin: A Case Study of the Pull Effect in Nineteenth-Century Migration

Authors

Pia Viscor

Keywords

Danish migration, emigrants, migration history

Abstract

The year 1971 marked a turning point in Danish migration history with the appearance of Kristian Hvidt's monumental study of emigration registers maintained by the Copenhagen police. 1 Four years later, the book appeared in an abridged English edition as Flight to America; The Social Background of 300,000 Danish Emigrants (New York: Academic Press, 1975).

Recommended Citation

Viscor, Pia (2008) "Danish Immigration to Racine County, Wisconsin: A Case Study of the Pull Effect in Nineteenth-Century Migration," The Bridge: Vol. 31: No. 2, Article 6.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thebridge/vol31/iss2/6