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Migration and Immigration. As nations underwent significant changes, the movement of people across borders took on new dimensions. This category delves into the phenomenon of immigration, exploring the motivations and experiences of individuals who sought new lives in foreign lands. It examines the impact of migration on both sending and ...
- 19th Century IMMIGRATION Insight: HISTORIC Analysis
Overall, immigration in the 19th century was essential for...
- 19th Century IMMIGRATION Insight: HISTORIC Analysis
Overall, immigration in the 19th century was essential for economic growth, cultural diversity, urbanization, nation-building, social and political change, labor movements, and the global exchange of ideas. It had a profound and lasting impact on the development of nations during this time period.
Emigration. While the number of immigrants entering Britain during the nineteenth century was not insignificant, during every decade after the 1830s, emigration from Britain vastly exceeded immigration. Between 1815 and 1914, approximately ten million people emigrated from Britain—about 20 percent of all European emigrants.
The migration from 1750 to 1900 had a significant impact on the receiving societies of those who migrated. In the Americas, the large-scale migration of people from Europe led to the rapid growth of urban centers and the development of industrial economies. The influx of immigrants also had a significant impact on the demographic makeup of ...
- From The 1950s to 1974: Guest Worker Schemes and Decolonization
- From 1974 to The End of The 1980s: The Oil Crisis and Migration Control
- From The 1990s to 2012: Recent Trends in Migration Towards and Within Europe
In the period after the Second World War, North-Western Europe was economically booming. Industrial production, for example, increased by 30 % between 1953 and 1958 (Dietz and Kaczmarczyk 2008). Native workers in this region became increasingly educated, and growing possibilities for social mobility enabled many of them to move up to white-collar w...
The oil crisis of 1973–1974 had considerable impact on the economic landscape of Europe. The crisis gave impetus to economic restructuring, sharply reducing the need for labour (Boyle, Halfacree & Robinson 1998). During this period, belief in unbridled economic growth diminished. Switzerland and Sweden were the first countries to invoke a migration...
Patterns of migration from, towards, and within Europe underwent significant changes and further diversification starting in 1990. The collapse of the Iron Curtain and the opening of the borders of Eastern Europe induced new migration flows across Europe. The end of the Cold War, as well as the wars in the former Yugoslavia led to new flows of asyl...
- C. Van Mol, H.A.G. de Valk
- 2016
Section 6.4 discussed the development of nativism after 1860. Renewed racism and nativism led to the end of mass immigration in the 1920s, when immigration quota laws were introduced. Variation in WASP racism involved only haphazard exclusion of European immigrants, but systematic exclusion of East Asians, Mexicans, and African Americans.
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In the nineteenth century, the manifestation of European influence and power and the worldwide presence of Europeans were expressed in dramatic histories of migration. From the end of the eighteenth century, Europeans were on the move on an increasing scale, and this movement had a profound impact on the European continent and the world at large.
