NO240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Assimilation, Socalled, Hutterite

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Immigration, labour, and migration in north america: gender, race and ethnicity in the early 20 th century. The united states and canada experienced major waves of immigration from the 1880s to 1920. Quotas on numbers of coloured people who could enter canada. Mexico is more of an exporter than an importer of persons. Mexican migration was greatly encouraged (anywhere, not just usa) Americans were welcoming at first for cheap labour, but as the 20th century progressed, High demand for people, labour on the rise = progressive era. Since 1980s unions have lost a great deal due to cultural shifts. Unlike the, hundreds of thousands of african slaves came to america against their will from 17th to 19th centuries, the newcomers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries came in search of a better life. Had idealized perceptions of the usa paved with gold .

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