Federated States of Micronesia Emigration and Immigration
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Finding the Town of Origin in Federated States of Micronesia[edit | edit source]
If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Federated States of Micronesia, see Federated States of Micronesia Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.
Federated States of Micronesia 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 Federated States of Micronesia[edit | edit source]
Historical affiliations:
- Spain Captaincy General of the Philippines 1574–1899
- German New Guinea 1899–1914
- Empire of Japan Imperial Japanese Navy occupation 1914–1919
- South Seas Mandate 1919–1947
- Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands 1947–1979
- Federated States of Micronesia Federated States of Micronesia 1979–present
- European explorers—first the Portuguese in search of the Spice Islands (Indonesia) and then the Spanish—reached the Carolines in the sixteenth century. *The Treaty of Tordesillas gave these lands to Spain and the Spanish incorporated the archipelago to the Spanish East Indies through the capital, Manila, and in the 19th century established a number of outposts and missions.
- Following defeat in the Spanish–American War, the Spanish sold the archipelago to Germany in 1899. Germany incorporated it into German New Guinea.
- During World War I, it was captured by Japan. Following the war, the League of Nations awarded a mandate for Japan to administer the islands as part of the South Seas Mandate.
- Following World War II, it was administered by the United States under United Nations auspices in 1947 as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
- On May 10, 1979, four of the Trust Territory districts ratified a new constitution to become the Federated States of Micronesia. Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands chose not to participate. The FSM signed a Compact of Free Association with the United States, which entered into force on November 3, 1986, marking Micronesia's emergence from trusteeship to independence. Independence was formally concluded under international law in 1990, when the United Nations officially ended the Trusteeship. [1]
Emigration From Federated States of Micronesia[edit | edit source]
KNOMAD Statistics: Emigrants: 29,300. Top destination countries: the United States, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, the Marshall Islands, Canada, Australia, Vanuatu, Kenya, the Slovak Republic[2]
Records of Emigrants in Their Destination Nations[edit | edit source]
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "Federated States of Micronesia", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_States_of_Micronesia, accessed 9 August 2021.
- ↑ Federated States of Micronesia, at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, https://www.knomad.org/data/migration/emigration?page=15, accessed 9 August 2021.