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Through this article, I will examine the impact of the activities of the Immigration societies vis a vis the League of Nations for the Albanian minority rights. I intend to analyze the role and the contribution of Albanian Immigration societies during the interwar period for the discussion of the larger problems of nationality and international migrants as 'transnationals' and their activities as examples of 'transnationalism'. My aim is to deal with an interesting and understudied area in Albanian Historiography and in the framework of the League of Nations that of the articulation between nation and minority building and new international moral. The Albanian diaspora settled in several European countries and in the USA created patriotic societies at the end of the nineteenth century. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it was very active in the Albanian National Movements, developing not only 'national awareness' but also the shaping of political life in Albania. In this period of time, each of them was trying to help the national issue in different ways. Most of the documents to be examined are letters and memos sent to the League of Nations, after which it decided whether or not to issue a resolution.

The resulting work will help to demonstrate a new example of 'transnationalism'