Questions tagged [immigration]
For questions relating to the migration of people into a country or geographic area.
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How long was the sea journey for most of the “second wave” of immigrants to New England?
My great x9 grandfather, Rev Ralph Partridge, had an especially long trip from England to New England. One source said he was at sea for 22 weeks and still needed four more weeks before arriving at ...
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Did the British government or the National Health Service at any point during the 1940s, 1950s or 1960s actively recruit nurses from the Caribbean?
Like many people, I used to believe that the British government invited people from the Caribbean to Britain after the Second World War to help fill a labour shortage. A few years ago, I watched a ...
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What federal statutes defined aliens (in)eligibility to US citizenship in 1913?
According to a recent news report, a Florida law that went into effect about a year ago bars Chinese citizens that are not permanent residents of the United States from acquiring real estate in the ...
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Factcheck: Did Australia request 200.000 17 year old girls from Germany in 1946?
This text was written in a newspaper published in Bodø, Norway on the 2nd of August 1946. It translates to approximately:
"Girls as war compensation.
Australia is among the countries that have ...
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Who was the model for Trutat's famous painting Nude Girl on a Panther Skin?
I have actually got as far as a surname with this one: Tussa. But, if possible, I would like to get a forename and a date of birth to go with it.
Félix Trutat painted his famous Nude Girl on a ...
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How long did it take arriving passengers to become indentured servants and where did they stay until then? [closed]
In colonial times just prior to the Revolution, when passengers arrived to the New World on a ship, how long would it typically take for them to be indentured to someone? For example, would they ...
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How was immigration from Latin America handled before the passage of the Immigration & Nationality act of 1965?
I know that in the United States, before the passage of the Immigration & Nationality act of 1965, immigration was controlled by the Immigration Act of 1924.
It limited the number of immigrants ...
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How much were Jews allowed to take with them from Nazi Germany?
This Smithsonian Magazine article indicates that Jews could keep 8% of their assets (at least in some cases, and I am sure in practice there were obstacles to retaining even that), which is different ...
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What percentage of US population descended from immigration per immigration year?
The title question is somewhat ill-defined because, of course, most Americans living today descended from immigrants from different years: one of your grandpas is a Mayflower descendant, another one's ...
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Why did Italian immigration to the US decrease from 1900s to 1920s?
Excluding the start of WWI and the later Immigration Act of 1924, what is the reason for this decrease especially from the Italian side.
See ncdemography.org
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How were immigrant doctors and nurses sponsored in 1960/1970s?
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I understand President Johnson passed Immigration Act of 1965. And there was shortage of Doctors and Nurses in the United States during 1960s, 1970s.
People in countries such as India ...
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Was merchant Hugh McCulloch the first Scotsman to set foot in California?
In June 1822 the Scottish merchant Hugh McCulloch landed at San Diego from the brig John Begg. He was the founding partner of the business McCulloch Hartnell & Co which for three years from 1 ...
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Was Kamehameha I unique in elevating so many foreigners?
In the early 1800s, King Kamehameha I of Hawai'i made liberal use of foreigners as advisors and counselors. His favorites included John Young, an English boatswain, Francisco Paula de Marin, a Spanish ...
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What are the themes of post-WW2 Polish immigration to the United States? [closed]
What are the themes of post-WW2 Polish immigration to the United States? What was life like for this immigrant community?
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How did an immigrant become a citizen in the nineteenth century? [closed]
I’m studying the history of emigration and immigration in the 19th century. My question is: How did an immigrant become a citizen in the nineteenth century? Thank you!
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What is the significance of 4200 BCE in context of farming replacing foraging in Europe?
This is a question relating to how and, in particular, why foragers were colonized by farmers (settled societies) of Hilly Flanks (uplands of Fertile Crescent of Southwest Asia).
According to Ian ...
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A German immigrant ancestor has a "Registration Affidavit of Alien Enemy" on file. What does that mean exactly?
While researching genealogy, I discovered that one of my ancestors had a "Registration Affidavit of Alien Enemy" document on file. It is dated 1 January 1918 and includes his fingerprints, immigration ...
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Was the village of Campalagian in West Sulawesi originally a Cham settlement?
I could not find any evidence on this, except an ancestral story my grandparents told me. My great-grandmother was said to come from Campalagian, a village near Polewali, in West Sulawesi. They said ...
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Percentages of wealthy and educated European immigrants to the US through out history?
I'm interested in knowing the percentages of wealthy and educated European immigrants to the US through out the country's history, but I can't find that online. I'll leave the definition of being ...
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About how many immigrants were on the Titanic?
All that I can find is that the majority of the 709 third class passengers were immigrants. Was it the vast majority, or nearly all of them?
Would there have been any immigrants in second class?
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In 1940s/50s how did refugees earn US citizenship?
I'm writing a piece about a polish refugee at the start of WW2 and I am trying to figure out the process for an unaccompanied minor, whose parents are supposed to be dead if that makes a difference, ...
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How did US anti-Irish sentiment decline?
Anti-Irish sentiment in the United States previously involved depictions of Irish migrants as non-human primates. While historians have debated the prevalence of contemporaneous "No Irish Need Apply" ...
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In epic migrations, why keep going?
Over time human cultures tend to naturally migrate, influenced by various push and pull factors. According to the gravity model of migration and specifically the concept of distance decay, very few of ...
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Which ship took Tolman to Kamchatka?
William Tolman was reportedly a mechanic from New England who got to Petropavlovsk on a whaling ship in 1813. Somehow he stayed behind and lived his whole long life in Kamchatka.
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What is the origin of US south region white people? [closed]
So where white people who live in south region of the USA did come from?
For example there are a lot of Americans with german ancestry in midwest, english americans(WASPs) in northeast. But what is ...
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How did the ancestors of proto-Malagasy in South Borneo reach Madagascar?
The Malagasy, the original inhabitants of Madagascar, are of both African and Asian ancestry. Both linguistic and genetic evidence point to an Indonesian
origin of the Asian ancestors, specifically ...
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Immigrants to Mexican New Mexico
In its Mexican era California attracted immigrants, principally Anglo-Americans, who often worked as merchants and capitalists. English speakers like William Hartnell and Thomas Larkin dominated ...
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What was John Buchan's position on Jewish immigration?
Canada was very restrictive about Jewish immigration in the late 1930's. John Buchan was governor general of Canada at that time. What was his position on Jewish immigration into Canada at that time?...
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Why did Black and Asian immigrants from the Empire not come to Britain in substantial numbers until after WW2?
The Windrush saga in the British media has thrown light on the situation of post-WW2 migrants from the British Empire - particularly the Caribbean, India and Pakistan - who came to the UK in the ...
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What is this card, and why does it go "on the hat"?
This document is from the papers of a family whose ancestors immigrated from Germany to the United States in the late 19th century:
Transcript:
Zwilchenbart
Basel
9 Centralbahnplatz 9
New York
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Is there evidence of people moving east to Europe?
We know that the Inuits moved from present-day Alaska to Greenland, but did they move any farther east? At least to Iceland or the other Nordic countries?
They would have to cross the Atlantic which ...
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What evidence is there of Asians and Africans in medieval Britain other than Moors in the 7th century?
According to the National Archives website:
..in the Middle Ages, Moors arrived in Britain. They probably came,
directly or indirectly, from Spain, which had been conquered by
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Why would Japanese people be in China during the 1920s?
I'm writing a historical fiction novel set in the second World War. One of the characters is a Japanese person who has lived in China since childhood. However, as I attempt to flesh out this backstory,...
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Why was there little nonwhite migration to Europe in the 19th century?
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This may sound like a strange question, but hear me out.
The 19th century was an age of massive population migration, perhaps the most significant in history according to this economic ...
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Why was immigration from France to the United States lower than from some other countries?
Large waves of immigrants to the United States arrived from various European countries at different times in history, including Irish, Germans, Scottish, Poles, Russians and some lesser waves from ...
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What jobs were available for migrants from the country to Rome?
I've read that the during the late Roman republic and early empire there was a great migration from country to urban living. Historians estimate in peninsular Italy 15%-20% of the population lived in ...
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Any advice on my thesis for a history paper on the issue of illegal immigration in 20th Century America? [closed]
Here is the prompt:
Prompt: In Impossible Subjects, historian Mae Ngai provides a sociolegal history of illegal immigration to the United States in the
twentieth century. Law and policy are the ...
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What share of refugees crossed borders during WW2 and its aftermath?
The Geneva convention of 1951 gives refugees from foreign countries certain rights.
One might think that it was a response to the tens of millions of displaced persons from the second world war. But ...
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Who was the Englishman working in 1818 at Mission San Carlos?
Vasili Golovnin wrote in "Around the World on the Kamchatka":
In the morning many of our officers and I went to the San Carlos Mission which is about five miles from Monterey on a small river and ...
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What are the chances that my ancestor from Massachusetts in 1670 was a Russian Jew?
I have family who claim that their ancestor who was in Massachusetts by 1670 was from Russia, and was Jewish! What are the chances?
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Why are Turkish people and other Turkik people considered of Mongolic race if their language is not in the Mongolic language family? [closed]
I saw that Turkish people are considered of Mongolic race even though Mongolic and Turkic are separate language families? Why are those races considered the same but their languages are so different ...
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Why does Brazil have many more Italian descendants than the U.S. or Argentina when the latter two received more Italian immigrants?
According to the wikipedia page about Italian emigration (in Portuguese, but the table with immigrants to each country is very easy to read) the U.S. received 5.6 million Italians between 1870 and ...
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Which Irishman worked at Mission Santa Cruz?
Kirill Khlebnikov was a Russian business agent who made several visits to Alta California. His "Travel Notes" from 1820 describe negotiations to buy grain from the Franciscan priest in charge of ...
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Were there any Russians in the 1849 Gold Rush?
A gold rush always brings new arrivals from many directions. Had any of the miners and businesspeople of the 1849 California Gold Rush come from Russia?
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Which immigrants became elected officials in an acquired language? [closed]
With some exceptions, candidates up for election are usually natural born citizens that are native speakers of the government's language. With the exception of the first generation of leaders in ...
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What happened north of the Alps after the Romans "left"?
I am hearing again and again in history documentaries and other such sources that the Romans abandoned their territory of Raetia and Noricum. After that Germanic people flooded in and settled there.
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Who was the first foreigner to be naturalized as a Mexican citizen in Alta California?
The earliest example I have is Jose Antonio Bolcof of Russia, who became a Mexican about 1833. Who beat him?
cf. Who was the first foreigner to be naturalized as a Mexican citizen?: several Texans ...
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Who was the first foreigner to be naturalized as a Mexican citizen?
The earliest example I have is Jose Antonio Bolcof of Russia, who became a Mexican about 1833. Who beat him?
cf. Who was the first foreigner to be naturalized as a Mexican citizen in Alta California? ...
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Why did the National Origins Act of 1924 use the 1890 census data?
In our US history course, we're learning about the 1920s era (New Era, Jazz Age, Roaring Twenties, etc), which was characterized by a wave of conservatism and nativism. We also learned that as part of ...
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When the outbreak of World War II was foreseeable, were any European commoners able to pre-emptively emigrate?
When the outbreak of World War II was foreseeable, or at least a conflict of some proportions was, were any common Europeans able to preemptively emigrate?
From reading some other questions and ...
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