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Online Sources[edit | edit source]

British Overseas Subjects[edit | edit source]

Burundi Emigration and Immigration[edit | edit source]

"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country.
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups.

Immigration into Burundi[edit | edit source]

  • Burundi was an independent kingdom, until the beginning of the 20th century, when Germany occupied and ruled the region.
  • After the First World War and Germany's defeat, it ceded the territory to Belgium.
  • Both Germans and Belgians ruled Burundi and Rwanda as a European colony known as Ruanda-Urundi.
  • Burundi gained independence in 1962 and initially had a monarchy. [1]

Emigration From Burundi[edit | edit source]

KNOMAD Statistics: Emigrants: 466,962. Top destination countries: Tanzania, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Canada, Malawi, South Africa, Sweden, Belgium, Kenya, United Kingdom[2]

Records of Burundi Emigrants in Their Destination Nations[edit | edit source]

One option is to look for records about the ancestor in the country of destination, the country they immigrated into. See links to Wiki articles about immigration records for major destination countries below. Additional Wiki articles for other destinations can be found at Category:Emigration and Immigration Records.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. "Burundi", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi, accessed August 2021.
  2. "Burundi", at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, https://www.knomad.org/data/migration/emigration?page=3, accessed August 2021