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Migration And Empire Flashcards

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Reasons for immigration - Push - Jews

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Persecution (pogroms)

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Reasons of immigration - Pull

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Job opportunities 
Higher wages
More farm land 
Easy to get to (cheap travel)
More industry 
Needed labour
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Reasons for immigration- Push - Irish

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Potato famine 
Poverty 
Unemployment 
Lack of farming land
Population increase
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Impact of empire on Scotland - Positive

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Job opportunities for scots
Raw materials (cotton and jute)
Trade (Export Markets)
Industry (Ship building)
Cheap labour
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Impact of the empire on Scotland - Negitives

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Brain Drain (skilled workers leaving)
Overpopulation 
Increased tension (Different cultures)
Increased competition
Dependance on exports
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Immigrants experience - Irish - Positive

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More jobs/better pay
Language
Ulster Scots (Protestant)
Inter-marriage

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Immigrants experience - Irish - Negative

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Low wages
Didn't integrate (Catholics)
Poor living conditions 
Bad reputation (drunk)
Discrimination
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Immigrants experience - Jewish - Positives

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Successful businessman (Banking, Tabaco)
Helped each other
New goods/services

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Immigrants experience - Jews - Negative

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Anti-Semitic (Anti-Jewish)

Didn’t integrate

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Immigrants experience - Lithuanians - Negitive

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Seen as Strike breakers
Undercut wages
Poor working conditions

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Immigrants experience - Lithuanians - Positive

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Integrate over time

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Immigrants experience - Italians - positive

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Brought new foods (ice cream, pizza)

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Immigrants experience - Italians - Negitive

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Didn’t integrate

Businesses were open on Sunday

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Reasons for migration - Push

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The Highland Clearances (highland farmers kicked out (landlords could make more money with sheep farming and game reserves))
The Agricultural Depression (prices dropped/machinery boomed(agricultural revaluation)
Deportations (prisoners) - once sentence was over they stayed (families joined them)
WW1 (heavy industry collapsed (ship building, munitions)) - unemployment

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Reasons for migration - Pull

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Propaganda - better land
Opportunities abroad - Land and Framing
Friends and Families - Letter back home saying it’s great
Transport - Shorter travel times
Some Landlords offered tenants to pay transport costs
Charities and organisations
Emigration agencies
Government schemes - UK and Colonial (Canada, India)

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