HIST 1F96 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Julio Argentino Roca, Racialization, Jane Addams
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Groups of people (immigrants) residing within one nation. Name (nation of immigrants) excludes the caribbeans and africans. Immigration policy was closely linked to ideas about race (influenced treatment/rejection) Immigrants weren"t smoothly integrated into societies (esp. the chinese) 1815-1930, 56 million european immigrants (95% in the americas; us, 1846-1924, most came from uk, italy, austria-hungary, germany, spain, russia and portugal. Key factors of migration: push factors: population growth in europe; important economic changes (shift from subsidence agriculture to commercial agriculture); industrial revolution; Terms: chain migration (someone migrates, family members/people from communities follow based on kinship communities); birds of passage (people who returned home, 40-60% of immigrants) Based on where they came from, where they went, under which conditions they left, why they left, racial/ethnic background, skills brought with them. Term: dominion lands act (1872) (offered settlers 160 acres if they agreed to farm it for three years; goal: have native lands filled with immigrant farmers)
