Types of migration
Economic causes
Push factors: Poverty and landlessness
Pull factors: Opportunity
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Political causes
Persecution and discrimination
Colonial displacement
Environmental causes
Famine and natural disasters
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The role of disease
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Labor demand as a cause of migration
Indentured servitude and contract labor
Convict transportation
Transportation technology enabling migration
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Primary sources
Letter from an Irish emigrant (1850)
Testimony of an indentured Indian laborer in Fiji (1879)
Chinese Exclusion Act, U.S. Congress (1882)
Key figures
Key events summary
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Vocabulary
Unit 6 topics
Unit 6 overview6.1Rationales for Imperialism from 1750 to 19006.2State Expansion from 1750 to 19006.3Indigenous Responses to State Expansion from 1750 to 19006.4Global Economic Development from 1750 to 19006.5Imperialism and Economic Development6.6Causes of Migration in an Interconnected World6.7Effects of Migration6.8Causation in the Imperial Age6.9Comparison in the Imperial Age