HIST 446 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Chain Migration
10/11/18
Week 6
Industrialization of Immigration
• Urbanization
o Intended destination
▪ Want to establish themselves as free/dependent farmers in the urban
sector
▪ Background shift
• Where people are coming from
▪ More urban than native born
• Vertical/Horizontal integration
o Immigration firms
▪ Efficiency
▪ Reduce costs
▪ Pre paid tickets
▪ Central shipping
• Case Studies
o Italian Immigrant
▪ Sojourner rate extremely high
▪ 1880-1910→ 3 million immigrants
• 1901-1910 -> 2 million immigrants (most in history)
▪ Immigration could continue till around 1915 (WW1)
▪ 1880s→ 300,000 immigrants
▪ Chain migration
▪ Gender imbalance
• 3:1 male to female
▪ Occupation incite
• Would live in the same houses/neighborhoods
