S. Gruber
Occupational migration in Albania in the beginning of the 20th century
In 1918 three quarters of the male residents of four Albanian cities (Shkodra, Tirana, Durrës, Kavaja), who were engaged in the 25 most popular occupations at that time, were born there and one quarter was born outside their place of residence. The range was between 89 percent and 65 percent in the four cities, with the largest city, Shkodra, almost equalling the average. Salesmen, pupils, and shoe-makers had the highest share of people born within the city: 87 percent. On the other hand half of the soldiers, agricultural day-labourers, and porters were in-migrants to the respective city. 80 percent of the seamen were born outside of these cities and therefore this occupation had the highest share of in-migrants. Most of these migrations were migrations within Albania, only few people crossed the borders to Albania. Some of the migrations took place within the Ottoman Empire’s borders before the Balkan Wars (1912/13), which included also Albania. The spatial distribution of the birthplaces of all these in-migrants can be investigated with the establishment of a historical GIS. Have all these cities their separate hinterland or do they overlap? Are there regions with a concentration of in-migrants in some occupations?
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