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Global Migration Dynamics: Why People Migrate and Its Social Impact

Explore the various factors influencing global migration patterns - from urbanization to coerced movements like slavery and indentured servitude. Understand the consequences and reactions, from the emergence of migrant ethnic enclaves to the regulation of immigrants in different regions. Delve into historical events such as the Chinese Exclusion Acts and the White Australia Policy, shedding light on the challenges and discrimination faced by migrants throughout history.

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Global Migration Dynamics: Why People Migrate and Its Social Impact

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  1. 5.4 Global Migration

  2. Why do people migrate?

  3. I. Migration • Influenced by changes • population in industrialized societies • population in unindustrialized societies •  Presents challenges to existing patterns of living. 

  4. Urbanization

  5. Because of the nature of the new modes of transportation, migrants relocate to cities

  6. Return of Migrants • Seasonal or temporary • Japanese agricultural workers in the Pacific • Sugar Plantations in Hawaii • Philippines Islands • Italians industrial workers • Agricultural workers and laborers • Lebanese merchants in the Americas

  7. Choose to relocate, in search of work • Manual laborers • Work done by hands • Chinese, Indian, Africans • Sugar Plantations • Specialized Professionals

  8. Coerced and Semi-Coerced Migration • Slavery • Chinese and Indian indentured servitude • Bound to work for a specific amount of time • Free passage home if they worked a second five-year contract • Convict Labor • Convict lease program • Prison labor to private parties; mostly African-Americans

  9. III. Consequences and reactions • A. Migrants tended to be male • Women take on new roles • Nurturing children • Typewriter and telephone inventions brought more women into the business world • Domestic Servants • Textile jobs

  10. III. Consequences and reactions • B. Migrant ethnic enclaves in different parts of the world • Chinese in Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, South American and North America • Chinatown • Indians in East and southern Africa, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia • Indians in South Africa • Durban – largest Indian city outside of India

  11. III. Consequences and reactions • C. Regulation of Immigrants • Did not always embrace immigrants • Various degrees of ethnic and racial prejudice

  12. Immigration • 19th Century - End of Slave trade brings Europeans and Asians in the Western hemisphere • Hostility; limits immigration • Desirables vs. “Undesirables” • Asians faced most obstacles • Victims of violence and discrimination • Europeans faced prejudice and discrimination, too • Italians, Spanish, Jews, Irish, Germans, Swedish, Polish and Middle Eastern immigrants • Threatens the well being of native-born workers • Low wages; national culture threaten

  13. Chinese Exclusion Acts

  14. Chinese Exclusion Acts

  15. White Australia Policy

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