HDFS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Chain Migration, Kinship
14 Dec 2018
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Mostly single males to work in factories. Immigrants concentrated in industrial cities of northeast and midwest. 60% of cities of 100,000 and up with ethnic enclaves. 1905, 1906, 1907, 1910, 1913, 1914 more than a million people annually. Almost 15% of population at turn of the century. Allowed only a few based on a country based quota system and forbade all immigration from asia. Legal immigration determined by family preferences for immigrant visas. 1900-1940 67% of all immigrants men. 1990 immigration act: no limitations on family members - new form of chain migration. Some little known facts about global migration. Recent globalization process has led to far less international migration than any time else in world history. Limited migration is mostly due to constraints in industrialized countries of immigration laws. Compared to earlier large scale migrations, today"s migration process is far more selective in terms of both emigration and immigration countries. Myth of less educated / welfare dependent population.
