Migrations Unit
Demography : Global
Push factors Religious persecution ( Jewish Pogroms) Lack of employment Famine ( Irish potato famine) Population pressures Faster cheaper transportation
Pull factors Farm land ( gov. Encouraged immigration with generous land policies) Economic opportunities ( gold rushes in Australia, Alaska, Northwest) Political & & religious freedom Indentured Servant “ a temporary slave”
Asian labor migration after 1750 India: Over 1 million emigrated as indentured servants to South Africa & Caribbean China: Over 8 million emigrated to Southeast Asia (Thailand-1.5 million & Indonesia-2.8 million) and the Americas Japan: Over 500,000 to the Americas and Pacific U.S. limits immigration with Chinese Exclusion Act & Gentlemen's act
African Slave Trade after 1750 Nearly two million Africans were shipped to the Americas between 1750 & 1870
European Migration from million Europeans emigrated to the two Americas, Australia, Asiatic Australia, South Africa, and other areas