Hungarian Mexicans
Mexicans of Hungarian birth or decent
Hungarian Mexicans (Hungarian: mexikói magyarok [ˈmɛksikoːji ˈmɒɟɒrok]) are Mexicans of Hungarian ancestry or origin. According to the 2020 census of INEGI, there are 369 Hungarians residing in Mexico.
History
There is a record of some Hungarians immigrating to Mexico since the mid 19th century. Dr. Ede Szender, who arrived during the French Intervention 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. At that time, other Hungarian immigrants also arrived as soldiers, but most of them returned to their homeland country at the end of their service.
In 1880, Vilmos Sennor, a Hungarian who lived in Mexico, published an article in the Budapest newspaper "Novedades Dominicales" (Vasárnapi Újság) about the arrival in Mexico of a group of gypsies, who were registered as Hungarians (Magyars ) for coming from Hungary. 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 Ashkenazi Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe. The number of arrivals began to grow in the 1920s, attracted by the quota system introduced in the United States, but later decreased due to restrictions.
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