POLA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Chain Migration, Transnationalism, Visible Minority
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Forms of migration- fee, forced, wanted and unwanted lecture 4. Humans are mobile: we"ve always moved in around. Migration has been driven by empire building, war and colonization often through. International migration in, history brutal means such as slavery. That the time period from about 1840-1940 marked by very high levels of international migration and driven in large part by economic considerations and relatively unrestrained by immigration restrictions. But also that it was during this period that racially discriminatory restrictions were developed and implemented: immigration policy was also about nation-building. By 1930s, international migration had declined because of the global economic downturn (great depression) Resumed after second world ,war but has been subject to much stricter controls than during period of relatively free migration between 1840-1914. Go to the airport and try to go somewhere without a ticket and passport is what the article is mainly about. Micro: individual and family, wages, cost benefit.
