The 1850s as Turning Point: The Birth of Globalization? - Migration

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Did a lot of people migrate in later nineteenth century?

The 1850s until World War I formed the most intensive era for this kind of movement in human history to that point.

Name examples of migration patterns in the later nineteenth century.

- Over fifty million Europeans went to North America, parts of Latin America, and Australia-New Zealand.
- About the same number of Chinese set sail to the Americas but also to Southeast Asia and elsewhere.
- Thirty million Indians migrated (to various places, including southern Africa and the Caribbean), and there were huge flows from Japan and the Philippines as well (the Japanese, for example, became the largest ethnic group in Hawaii).

What explained the rise of migration in later nineteenth century?

Population pressures at home, new work of industrial recruiters help explain this huge flow.
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What were Chinese in the United States often accused of?

Encouraging prostitution and red light districts, as well as other undesirable behaviours.

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