Migration And Empire Flashcards
Reasons for immigration - Push - Jews
Persecution (pogroms)
Reasons of immigration - Pull
Job opportunities Higher wages More farm land Easy to get to (cheap travel) More industry Needed labour
Reasons for immigration- Push - Irish
Potato famine Poverty Unemployment Lack of farming land Population increase
Impact of empire on Scotland - Positive
Job opportunities for scots Raw materials (cotton and jute) Trade (Export Markets) Industry (Ship building) Cheap labour
Impact of the empire on Scotland - Negitives
Brain Drain (skilled workers leaving) Overpopulation Increased tension (Different cultures) Increased competition Dependance on exports
Immigrants experience - Irish - Positive
More jobs/better pay
Language
Ulster Scots (Protestant)
Inter-marriage
Immigrants experience - Irish - Negative
Low wages Didn't integrate (Catholics) Poor living conditions Bad reputation (drunk) Discrimination
Immigrants experience - Jewish - Positives
Successful businessman (Banking, Tabaco)
Helped each other
New goods/services
Immigrants experience - Jews - Negative
Anti-Semitic (Anti-Jewish)
Didn’t integrate
Immigrants experience - Lithuanians - Negitive
Seen as Strike breakers
Undercut wages
Poor working conditions
Immigrants experience - Lithuanians - Positive
Integrate over time
Immigrants experience - Italians - positive
Brought new foods (ice cream, pizza)
Immigrants experience - Italians - Negitive
Didn’t integrate
Businesses were open on Sunday
Reasons for migration - Push
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
Reasons for migration - Pull
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)
