Ottoman emigration to Argentina 1870-1914

Abstract

This thesis scrutinizes the history of emigration from the Ottoman Empire to Argentina between 1870-1914, based on primary sources obtained from the Prime ministry Ottoman State archives and some statistics held by Argentine governments as well as some secondary literature. It aims to shed light into some main questions related to the emigration issue such as; what were the causes of emigration to Argentina, how many people did emigrate, who did emigrate, what was the policy of the Empire towards emigrations, what did the Ottoman immigrations do in the destination country etc. The thesis mainly focuses on social and economic perspectives of the emigration phenomenon. Also it tries to handle the issue within the frame of global population movement which took place in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century. Thus each question is analyzed in comparison emigrations from other countries to Argentina in this period.