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Effects of Migration

AP World History: Modern

Demographic effects

Population redistribution

Impact on indigenous populations

Economic effects

Effects on receiving societies

Effects on sending societies

Cultural effects

Creation of diaspora communities

Cultural blending and syncretism

Nativism and anti-immigrant movements

Environmental effects

Transformation of landscapes

Political effects

Immigrant contributions to politics

Primary sources

Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890)

U.S. Senate Immigration Commission (Dillingham Commission), report (1911)

Mohandas Gandhi, speech in South Africa (1896)

Key figures

Key events summary

Vocabulary