Hungarian Mexicans are Mexicans of Hungarian ancestry or origin. According to the 2020 census of INEGI, there are 369 Hungarians residing in Mexico.[1]
History edit
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From Hungary people of three different ethnic groups have emigrated to Mexico: Hungarians (Magyars), Gypsies s and Jews s. There is a record of some Hungarians who lived in Mexico since the mid 19th century. Dr. Ede Szender, who arrived during the French Intervention and lived for several years in San Luis Potosí, was in charge of the autopsy and embalming of the body of Maximilian of Habsburg and left a valuable face-to-face chronicle in the article “The death of the Emperor Maximilian”, which he published in 1876.[2] At that time hundreds also arrived Hungarian soldiers in the Austrian-Hungarian Volunteer Military Corps, but most of them returned to their native country at the end of their service.[3]
In 1880, Vilmos Sennor, a Hungarian living in Mexico, published an article in the Budapest newspaper "Novedades Dominicales" (Vasárnapi Újság) about the arrival in Mexico of a group of gypsy s, who were registered as Hungarians (Magyars ) for coming from Hungary.[4] In 1931, as a consequence of the economic depression, the Mexican government imposed a restriction on the Migration Law of 1926 that temporarily prohibited the entry of Gypsies (and other nationalities), but not expressly that of Hungarians. Hungarian Jews arriving in Mexico followed the general trends of Azquenazi emigration from Eastern Europe.[5] The number of arrivals began to grew in the 1920s, attracted by the quota system introduced in the United States, but later decreased due to Mexican immigration constraints.[6]
In recent years, the academic at the University of Szeged, Hungary. Mónika Szente-Varga has carried out in-depth research on the Hungarian migration to Mexico between 1901 and 1950.[7]Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).
The Hungarian-Mexican community edit
In the INEGI report "Foreigners in Mexico" (2003), Hungarians are not included in the list of immigrant colonies, which constitute at least 0.2% of all foreign-born residents, nor does it specify their population.[8]
References edit
- ^ "Population and Housing Census 2020". INEGI. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
- ^ Szender Ede. "The Death of Emperor Maximilian". In: Hungary and the World, June 18, 1876 (in Hungarian).[1]
- ^ The Austrian Voluntary Corps in Mexico
- ^ Sennor Vilmos. "Levél Mexikóból" In: Vasárnapi Újság, 1889, No.46. p. 750-751 [2].
- ^ Jiménez Arturo. "The Azquenzí community celebrates a century of presence in Mexico." In: La Jornada (Mexico), Sept. 29. del 2005. [3]
- ^ Szente-Varga M Hungarian migration to Mexico between 1901 and 1950. 1st. edition. Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico - University of Szeged, Hungary. 2007-224 p. [4]
- ^ Szente-Varga M. Hungarian immigrants in Mexico and the formation of a Hungarian colony. In: Anthropological Dimension, vol. 43, May-August, 2008, pp. 57-86. [5]
- ^ National Institute of Geography and Informatics. "Foreigners in Mexico". 2003. 68 p.