The article investigates the relations among internal, Continental, and
transatlantic migration in late imperial Austria by combining information from
passenger records of ships to the United States and internal district-level
migration data from the Austrian census. Combined with other statistical
sources, a snapshot of migration to the United States is provided in the context
of long-standing patterns of internal and Continental migration and the changing
socioeconomic structures of the empire. The relationships between internal and
transatlantic movements and the determinants of migration to the United States
are analyzed by means of regression analysis. In late imperial Austria internal
mobility was negatively related to transatlantic migration. This suggests the
existence of different migration systems with different patterns of internal,
Continental, and transatlantic migration.