Unit 6 _ Global Migrations WebQuest Assignment 6.3
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Unit 6: Global Migrations Webquest
Assignment 6.3
This four part activity will help you better understand global migrations of the 1750-1900 time period.
Our Essential Questions
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Explain how various environmental factors contributed to the development of varied patterns
of migration from 1750 to 1900.
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Explain how and why new patterns of migration affected society from 1750 to 1900.
Part 1:
Topic 6.6 - Causes of Migration in an Interconnected World
Migration in many cases was influenced by changes in demographics in both industrialized and
unindustrialized societies that presented challenges to existing patterns of living.
Because of the nature of new modes of transportation, both internal and external migrants increasingly
relocated to cities. This pattern contributed to the significant global urbanization of the 19th century. The new
methods of transportation also allowed for many migrants to return, periodically or permanently, to their
home societies.
Return of migrants:
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Japanese agricultural workers in the Pacific
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Lebanese merchants in the Americas
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Italian industrial workers in Argentina
Migrants:
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Irish to the United States
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British engineers and geologists to South Asia and Africa
Many individuals chose freely to relocate, often in search of work.
The new global capitalist economy continued to rely on coerced and semicoerced labor migration, including
slavery, Chinese and Indian
indentured servitude
, and convict labor.
Topic 6.7 - Effects of Migration
Migrants tended to be male, leaving women to take on new roles in the home society that had been formerly
occupied by men.
Migrants often created
ethnic enclaves
in different parts of the world that helped transplant their culture into
new environments
Migrant ethnic enclaves:
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Chinese in Southeast Asia
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the Caribbean, South America, and North America
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Indians in East and Southern Africa
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the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia
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Irish in North America
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Italians in North and South America
Receiving societies did not always embrace immigrants, as seen in the various degrees of ethnic and racial
prejudice and the ways states attempted to regulate the increased flow of people across their borders.
Regulation of immigrants:
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Chinese Exclusion Act
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White Australia policy
1.
After reading the topics above, summarize some of the reasons that global migrations occurred in the
1750-1900 time period:
In 1750-1900, populations centers moved to the urban centers and paper who immigrated could travel
back to their native countries and also, coerced labor.
2.
How do you think industrialization played a role in increased migrations in this time period?
Because of industrialization, transportation between two countries became much easier and cheaper
for workers can leave their native countries and return.
3.
How do you think global capitalism played a role in increased migrations during this time period?
The Global Capitalism that was developing during this time period was, at its core, based on free
coerced labor, which led to the forced migration of cultures.
Part 2: Migration Factors Presentation
Short lecture on migration factors. Follow along looking over the
class presentation
.
4. Describe PUSH factors in your
own words.
Why a person would leave their native country
5. Describe PULL factors in your
own words.
Why someone might go to a certain country
6. What aspects of global
migrations would be considered
CONTINUITIES from our previous
unit (1450-1750)?
Push and pull factors that have remained the same through out history
7. What aspects of global
migrations would be considered
CHANGES from our previous unit
(1450-1750)?
As new technologies and social issues arise it change the reason
behind push and pull factors.
Part 3: Videos on Chinese Immigration in the U.S.
Please respond to the following after watch the three videos in class.
Video #1: Why Chinese People Came to the US
(6 minutes)
Summarize what you learned from this video below. Make sure you respond in complete sentences.
8. In the last hundred year or so, the Chinese immigrants in the United States have been pushed here by
various changes in China.
.
Video #2: San Francisco’s Chinatown
(9 minutes)
Summarize what you learned from this video below. Make sure you respond in complete sentences.
9. The San Francisco Chinatown has stood the test of time despite the rampant discrimination and racism
that Chinese Americans have faced over the years.
Video #3: Chinese in the Mississippi Delta
(8 minutes)
Summarize what you learned from this video below. Make sure you respond in complete sentences.
10. The Chinese Americans in the Mississippi Delta have played a major role in the development of the
South post bellum and have developed their own little culture.
Part 4: Local Response to Immigration
Read the
Chinese Exclusion Act
and respond to the following:
11. Record below your main thoughts after reading the Chinese Exclusion Act.
That one of America’s values is that every man is equal and yet things like this happen.
12.
What rights should immigrants or foreign laborers have under American law? Should the
Constitution be altered? Should the 14th Amendment be expanded?
That when it is said every man is equal that we should be treated as everyman is equal.
13. Was the Chinese Exclusion Act or a law like it a good idea at any point? When? If not, how can
you address foreign labor crowding a finite job market?
No of course it was not a good idea. Never in a million years should this have been accepted. If a
certain race or foreigners are dominating in a job market it is because they are qualified to do that job.
14. What sorts of lingering effects can a law like this have, both to a Chinese-American population
and to relations between China and the United States?
That Chinese Americans who have been here for generations are still being treated like they are less
than and still being treated like foreigners.
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15. Should immigration be restricted in terms of ethnicity or race? Religion? Political belief? Any
criteria you can think of? Why or why not?
no
16. Is it ethical to use a population of people for cheap labor, as Chinese immigrants were used on
the railroad, and then enact measures to keep more from immigrating? Why or why not? Do ethics
like these have any basis for laws?
No, people are people not machines you can use to your advantage.