ANT 160 Lecture 27: Migrants and Refugees
9 Dec 2017
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Warfare, conflict, formation of nations and emergence of states. Slavery- by 1790, there were 2. 5 million african slaves in the americas. In 1790, 19% of the us population was black. Triangular trade : ships with manufactured goods from england to west. Africa, africans to north and south america and plantation goods. British recruited 30 million from indian subcontinent to work on sugar plantations in the caribbean. Dutch used chinese in dutch east india. Irish to british to work in textile factories, building trades and on railroads. Little movement during interwar period due to economic stagnation and isolationism. European guest workers- from mediterranean countries to britain, belgium, Filled post-war labor shortage, but were reluctant to go home when shortage passed. Germany: we asked for workers and we got people . Now people are free to move within european. Migration is a process that affects millions upon millions of people.
