6.6

Causes of Migration in an Interconnected World

AP World History: Modern

Types of migration

Economic causes

Push factors: Poverty and landlessness

Pull factors: Opportunity

Political causes

Persecution and discrimination

Colonial displacement

Environmental causes

Famine and natural disasters

The role of disease

Labor demand as a cause of migration

Indentured servitude and contract labor

Convict transportation

Transportation technology enabling migration

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

Vocabulary