adam mckeown global migration, 1846-1940
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ADAM MCKEOWNGLOBAL MIGRATION, 1846-1940Anna NémethMigration StudiesCorvinus University of Budapest
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MAIN POINTS• Euro-centrism VS histoire totale à la Braudel• Never study migration on its own• Family is important• Don’t believe everything you read
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HOW YOU THINK OF THE WORLD (THE MERCATOR MAP)
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WHAT THE WORLD IS ACTUALLY LIKE (PETERS-MAP, 1974)
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HOW YOU THINK ABOUT MIGRATION
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MAJOR LONG-DISTANCE MIGRATION FLOWS, 1846-1940
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From 1870 to 1930 approximately 35 million migrants moved into the 4.08 million square kilometers of
Southeast Asia, compared to the 39 million migrants that moved into the 9.8 million square kilometers of the United States.
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WHY SHOULD WE CARE? • More grist for comprative micro/macro studies• Causes of migration• Migration networks• How migration relates to economic change• Migration around the world follows the same broad cycles
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WHY DON’T SCHOLARS CARE?• For most transoceanic = long-distance migration• Thinking primarily in terms of European intervention• They regard Asian migration as wholly different from
European
• Peter Frankopan: The World We Have Lost • Bethany Brookeshire: Psychology is WEIRD
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EMIGRATION RATESPEAK• 22/1000 – Ireland (1845-55)• 18/1000 – Iceland (1880s)• ~South Pacific/Caribbean islands
TYPICAL (OVERSEAS)• 10,8/1000 – Italy• 8.3/1000 – Norway• 9.6/1000 - Guangdon (S-China)
(1920s)• 10/1000 – Hebei
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WORLD POPULATION GROWTH BY REGIONS
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THE YEAR 1914• From then on, migration ↓ - ?• 2 M people to France, emigration from Eastern-Europe and
Portugal grows
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MAIN POINTS• Euro-centrism VS histoire totale à la Braudel• Never study migration on its own• Family is important• Don’t believe everything you read
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CAUSES FOR MIGRATION• 1860s, North Asia: emancipation of serfs in Russia, 1860• Railroad constructions• Suez Canal construction• Infrastructure for cotton cultivation
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THE CONSEQUENCES ARE ABOUT SO MUCH MORE THAN WORK• Economic transformation disrupted old migration patterns• Decline of transatlantic slave trade in 1820s -> rise of indentured
migrant workers in 1840s -> that declines when Asian migration starts to boom
• Exiles and prisoners to Siberia decline as migration grows
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THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT REGULATION• „free” migration: product of government regulation• Abolishment of slave trade („coolie” trade in 1870s ->
expansion of Indian migration)• Chinese migration to colonial Southeast Asia
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HOW DOES THE GOVERNMENT FEEL• Nationalism/policing territorial boundaries• BUT• Fortifying borders• Expanding national interests• Eigrant communities
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MAIN POINTS• Euro-centrism VS histoire totale à la Braudel• Never study migration on its own• Family is important• Don’t believe everything you read
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GLOBAL PATTERNS• Family = fundamental decision-making unit• Investment-portfolio• Context of information and assistance• Also restricts• Family vs. Migration models• Family structure explaining the different migration
demographics
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NETWORKS• Traditional merchant diasporas (Jews, Armenians)• Chettiars• Farsis• Sindworkies
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MAIN POINTS• Euro-centrism VS histoire totale à la Braudel• Never study migration on its own• Family is important• Don’t believe everything you read
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„MIGRANT STOCK”• IOM/UN -> foreign-born• Has the rates change since the 1920s? Eh