Migration Before (Prior to) 1750
Sell themselves to get a ticket to move to a new continent
They never went back home
Permanent migration
Push factors
encourage people to move away from their homes
Pull factors
Causes
Move to cities for work
For industrial countries to grow
Get jobs
Moving between colonies
Coerced labor
Slavery exists, and it slowly ended
Convict labor (prison people)
Some laborers were treated poorly
The largest group of migrants came from India
because the British largely reshaped India’s Economy
assimilated
catholic
Push factor: Ireland 饥荒? in 1850
Effects
New roles of women in family and social life (not politics)
Lead for pushes of political rights
Chain migration (family moved, and others moved)
Lead to diversity
Create strengths and weaknesses
Homogenes
push back
unofficial discrimination
Continuity (jobs are taken by migrants in the US)
Chinese exclusion policy
WhiteAustralia Policy – 1901