1. KC 5.4: Global Migration
Period 5:

2. Migration in many cases was influenced by changes in demography in both industrialized & un-industrialized societies that presented challenges to existing patterns of living

3. Changes in food production & improved medical conditions contributed to a significant global rise in population

4. Because of the nature of new modes of transportation, both internal & external migrants increasingly relocated to cities
This pattern contributed to the significant global urbanization of the 19th Century

6. Migrants (manual laborers, specialized professionals) relocated for a variety of reasons

7. Many individual chose freely to relocate, often in search of work

8. The new global capitalist economy continued to rely on coerced & semicoerced labor migration
Slavery
Chinese & Indian Indentured Servitude
Convict Labor

9. While many migrants permanently relocated, a significant number of temporary & seasonal migrants returned to their home societies
Japanese agricultural workers in the Pacific
Lebanese merchants in the Americas
Italians in Argentina

10. The large-scale nature of migration, especially in the
The large-scale nature of migration, especially in the 19th century, produced a variety of consequences & reaction to the increasingly diverse societies on the part of migrants & the existing populations

11. Due to the physical nature of the labor in demand, migrants tended to be male, leaving women to take on new roles in the home society that had been formerly occupied by men

12. Migrants often created ethnic enclaves in different parts of the world which helped transplant their culture into new environments & facilitated the development of migrant support networks
Chinese in Southeast Asia, Caribbean, South America, North America
Washington, D.C. Chinatown
Indians in East & Southern Africa, the Caribbean, & Southeast Asia

13. Receiving societies did not always embrace immigrants, as seen in the various degrees of ethnic & racial prejudice & the ways states attempted to regulate the increased flow of people across their borders
Chinese Exclusion Act
White Australia Policy