Immigration
During the years 1945–1992, ethnic Macedonians and the Macedonian Language was a constituent part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Many Ethnic Macedonians migrated to other parts of the federation. Thousands of Aegean Macedonians who had fled from Greece were resettled in the Vojvodina region. This migration was most prevalent in the Socialist Republic of Serbia and the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. In 2002 there was 14,062 Ethnic Macedonians in Central Serbia and 11,785 in Vojvodina. In 2004, Serbia and Macedonia signed an inter-state agreement on the protection of Macedonians in Serbia and Serbs in Macedonia. In 2011 Macedonians count 22,755 in whole of Serbia.
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“America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“I was interested to see how a pioneer lived on this side of the country. His life is in some respects more adventurous than that of his brother in the West; for he contends with winter as well as the wilderness, and there is a greater interval of time at least between him and the army which is to follow. Here immigration is a tide which may ebb when it has swept away the pines; there it is not a tide, but an inundation, and roads and other improvements come steadily rushing after.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)