Monaco Emigration and Immigration


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Finding the Town of Origin in Monaco

If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Monaco, see Monaco Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.

Monaco Emigration and Immigration

"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 Monaco

Monaco's total population was 38,400 in 2015. Monaco's population is unusual in that the native Monégasques are a minority in their own country: the largest group are French nationals at 28.4%, followed by Monégasque (21.6%), Italian (18.7%), British (7.5%), Belgian (2.8%), German (2.5%), Swiss (2.5%) and U.S. nationals (1.2%).[1]

Emigration From Monaco

KNOMAD Statistics: Emigrants: 53,000. Top destination countries: France, Greece, Italy, the United States, Libya, Switzerland, Brazil, Canada, the Arab Republic of Egypt, Australia [2]

Records of Emigrants in Their Destination Nations

Dark thin font green pin Version 4.png 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.

France, Greece, Italy, the United States, Libya, Switzerland, Brazil, Canada, the Arab Republic of Egypt, Australia

References

  1. "Monaco", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco#Demographics, accessed 5 August 2021.
  2. "Monaco", at KNOMAD, the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, https://www.knomad.org/data/migration/emigration?page=16, accessed 5 August 2021.