I. Migration in many cases was influenced by changes in demography in both industrialized and unindustrialized societies that presented challenges to existing patterns of living.
A. Changes in food production and improved medical conditions contributed to a significant global rise in population.
B. Because of the nature of the new modes of transportation, both internal and external migrants increasingly relocated to cities. This pattern contributed to the significant global urbanization of the nineteenth century. |
This video has a US history focus, but the thought bubble looks at immigration and since many immigrants were coming to America, it will be helpful to World history students as well.
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A. Many individuals chose freely to relocate, often in search of work.
Examples of such migrants: • Manual laborers • Specialized professionals B. The new global capitalist economy continued to rely on coerced and semi-coerced labor migration. Required examples of coerced and semi-coerced labor migration: • Slavery • Chinese and Indian indentured servitude • Convict labor |
C. Receiving societies did not always embrace immigrants, as seen in the various degrees of ethnic and racial prejudice and the ways states attempted to regulate the increased flow of people across their borders.
Examples of the regulation of immigrants: • The Chinese Exclusion Acts • The White Australia Policy |