From the ArchivesCreated June 28, 2002Updated August 16, 20262 min readby Gordan Stojović
It was recently published by MONTENEGRO.COM, the Montenegrin cyber crossroads and one of the youngest publishing houses in Montenegro, and under the auspices of the MONTENEGRO ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA AND CANADA from the press and
Recently, the book "MONTEENGRO EMIGRATION: ARGENTINA".
This act achieved two important goals:
- continuation of work of Montenegro.com through publishing activities
- successful implementation of the first part of the project on promoting cooperation between researchers and organizations in Montenegro with Montenegrin institutions and individuals in the diaspora for the benefit of studying and uncovering the history of our presence on the South American continent.
Several more publications with a similar theme, but more focused on emigrants who came to the northern part of the American continent, are also being prepared, which is also realized under the auspices of www.mausac.org, published by www.montenegro.com, and with the help of several American non-governmental organizations that deal with the history of immigration to this great country.
So before you is a new book that was created through fruitful cooperation and joint efforts of the Montenegrin motherland and the diaspora.
Montenegrin Emigration
ARGENTINA
It provides so far the best insight and the most complete amount of information both on the history of Montenegrin emigrants to Argentina and on the current state and relations between our emigrants and their descendants. The book contains the unique testimony of Timoti Jokanova about his journey from the village of Trse in Piva to Buenos Aires in 1904, and a number of other interesting data about our people in Argentina.
All information about the book or possible orders from Montenegro and abroad can be obtained at the following e-mail address:
The price of the book is 15 USD + postage for abroad and 9 Euro + postage for Montenegro.
Sincerely,
The author
Gordan Stojović
Apartments Montenegro
Montenegrin emigration to Argentina
The background the book covers. Emigration from Montenegro to Argentina belongs mainly to the decades either side of 1900, when Buenos Aires and the Patagonian ports were absorbing migrants from across southern Europe. Montenegrins arrived in smaller numbers than Italians or Spaniards, which is precisely why the record of them is thin and why a documented account matters.
Why it is hard to trace. Arrivals were frequently registered by the empire or successor state that issued the passport rather than by origin, so Montenegrins disappear into Austro-Hungarian, Yugoslav or simply Slavic categories. Reconstructing the community means working from parish registers, association records and family papers rather than official statistics.
What survives. Montenegrin associations, church records and family archives in Argentina, alongside the letters and remittances that went the other way. Books of this kind exist because the descendants kept the paperwork when the institutions did not.
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Written by
Gordan Stojović
Gordan Stojović is a Montenegrin politician, writer and publicist, and a member of the Parliament of Montenegro (Skupština). A specialist in the history of Montenegrin emigration, he is the author of several books on the diaspora in South America — among them "Crnogorci u Argentini" and "Crnogorci u Južnoj Americi" — and served as Montenegro's ambassador to Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay (2014–2019). For Montenegro.com he writes about Montenegrins across the Americas and the stories of the old diaspora.
