HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Migration
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Across the seas and beyond : nineteenth century global migrations. The migrations in the past have been local, regional but some have been intercontinental. Migration of mass amounts of people took a long time. This ubiquity of human migration affects society, economy factors: the 19th century is different. Migration as agents of change culture, idea, technology. Within just a few decades, more than 100 million people migrated from one continent to another. Changes in human society happen because of many different reasons. Our job as historians is to understand the processes of change. Changes happen because of internal contradictions, class contradictions, response to environment, consequence of warfare. One of the agents of change is migration. Migration facilitates trade b/w the host society and the home country: in order to understand change in human society we must look at migration. The story of human movement is the most important part of connecting parts the world together.
