HISTORY 15F Lecture 7: Week 7a: The “New” immigrants as “offspring” of global capitalism; and the importance of food as a livelihood
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Week 7a: the new immigrants as offspring of global capitalism; and the importance of food as a livelihood. It created a significant condition of emigration and shifted the main sources of emigration. Studying the new waves of immigration us that the immigrants were not passive victims of historical change. the emerging new patterns in the source of emigration remind us that the immigrants were not passive victims of historical change. Rather their decision to leave for america also reflected their agency in responding to structural changes in the economy of their native regions and homeland. The second point further reveals the historical agency of the immigrants: the choices their made; their efforts in starting a new life in the new world. This reveals another fundamental connection between food and immigration: food was important for the immigrants, not only culturally and politically, but also economically. Immigrants have had a strong inclination to start their own businesses.
