Migration Global Inequality Lopsided World Rich West and
Migration
Global Inequality • Lopsided World – Rich (West) and poor (Third World) countries – Railroads/Steamboats • Facilitated sale of Western manufactured goods and export of local raw materials • Facilitated Migration
Migration • To Africa • To North/South America – From Europe – From East/SE Asia • To Australia
To North America • Push – – Lack of freedoms Violence Famine Overpopulation • Pull – Work/Indentured Servitude – Opportunity – Rights • Effects – Discriminatory Laws – Displacement of Native Americas
Australia • 1770 - Captain James Cook discovered Australia – Aborigines – Native Australians. Hunter/Gatherers • 1786 – Penal Colony (abolished 1869) – Exports: Seals & Wool – Land Grants 1831 (Free Settlers) – Gold 1851 (Attracted Chinese) • 1859 – Self Government – Slowly got more right to rule – 1901 Independence, Parliament System, Women’s suffrage (1902) – Deep loyalty to Great Britain
There were many changes in long distance migrations in the period from 1700 to 1900 in Europe and the Americas such as that in the beginning there was the diaspora of Africans to the U. S. , but near the end of this period, the slave trade across the Atlantic was outlawed, so indentured servants especially from East and Southeast Asia began migrating to the US; there was a continuity in long-distance migrations during this time in that there remained a steady flow of foreign migraters [sic] into the US who seek economic gain.
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