PART OF THE BOOK “SELECTED PAPERS FOR MACEDONIA” BY SLAVÉ KATIN Macedonia is traditionally an emigrational region from which emigrational movement of the Macedonian people and movement to the transoceanic and other countries took place toward the mid 19th century. Such movements were especially emphasized during the second half of the 19th century and were known as “pechalba” (going abroad for economic reasons). With a ranging scale and ...

PART OF THE BOOK “SELECTED PAPERS FOR MACEDONIA” BY SLAVÉ KATIN Modern economic emigration gained great intensity in the nineties of the previous century (XX) when more than 100, 000 of the residents of Macedonia (including Macedonians, ethnic Albanians, and others) left the country. This can be seen from available data from the last census of the population of the Republic of Macedonia. According to it, in 1994 173,611 persons were abroad, ...