Eritrea Emigration and Immigration

Online Sources

 * 1878-1960 UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960, at Ancestry.com, index and images. ($)
 * 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 at Findmypast; index & images, ($)

British Overseas Subjects

 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Eritrea, index and images, ($)
 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Africa at Findmypast - index & images ($)


 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Eritrea, index and images, ($)
 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Africa at Findmypast - index & images ($)


 * British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials at Findmypast - index & images ($)

Eritrea 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 Eritrea

 * The creation of modern-day Eritrea is a result of the incorporation of independent, distinct kingdoms (for example, Medri Bahri and the Sultanate of Aussa) eventually resulting in the formation of Italian Eritrea.
 * After the defeat of the Italian colonial army in 1942, Eritrea was administered by the British Military Administration until 1952. Following the UN General Assembly decision in 1952, Eritrea would govern itself with a local Eritrean parliament, but for foreign affairs and defense, it would enter into a federal status with Ethiopia for ten years. However, in 1962, the government of Ethiopia formally annexed Eritrea.
 * The Eritrean secessionist movement organized the Eritrean Liberation Front in 1961 and fought the Eritrean War of Independence until Eritrea gained de facto independence in 1991. Eritrea gained de jure independence in 1993 after an independence referendum.
 * There are Italian Eritrean (concentrated in Asmara) and Ethiopian Tigrayan communities. Neither is generally given citizenship unless through marriage or, more rarely, by having it conferred upon them by the State.
 * Eritrea had about 760,000 inhabitants, including 70,000 Italians, in 1941. Most Italians left after Eritrea became independent from Italy. It is estimated up to 100,000 Eritreans are of Italian descent.

Emigration From Eritrea
KNOMAD Statistics: Emigrants: 387,400. Top destination countries: Sudan, Saudi Arabia, the United States, Ethiopia, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Sweden, Italy, Norway, Germany