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A 10 page research paper that examines why there were huge mass movements of people in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries. First of all, the writer looks at immigration relative to Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Then, internal migration of people to Northern cities is discussed. Lastly, the writer discusses the development of suburbs and the social work of settlement houses. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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a migration of human populations unprecedented in recorded history. Over five million foreigners enter the US between 1926 and 1960.2 Five million immigrants ventured to the US between 1850
and 1870, with five million arriving in the 1880s alone.3 Between 1920 and 1950, however, the number of foreign-born residents in Americas largest cities dropped by half, was the
waves of immigration subsided.4 These people came to the US for a number of reasons, but primarily in pursuit of the American Dream, which offered the promise of economic prosperity
within a free society. In their text, The Age of Mass Migration, Timothy Hatten (University of Essex) and Jeffrey Williamson (Harvard) present the results of their extensive examination of the
causes and consequences of late nineteenth and early twentieth century migration. Charting emigration patterns from twelve European co9untries between 1850 and 1913, this research team found a strong positive
correlation between emigration and relative real wages.5 This data tends to support the importance of economic incentives as a factor encouraging migration. In other words, emigrants in the late nineteenth/early
twentieth centuries came to the US for reasons similar to those that had caused earlier waves of emigration, that is, populations pressure, economic factors, and agricultural hardships. However, this
research also indicates a number of other factors, which include "demographic shocks, the assistance of friends and relatives living overseas, the progress of industrialization at home, and the rate of
migration in the recent past."6 These factors tend to suggest that once an emigration pattern is established, it tends to be self-supporting, with the experience of emigrants in the new
land encouraging more emigration of their friends and relatives. According to Hatten and Williamson, these factors successfully explain the high emigration rates from Ireland and Scandinavia, as well as the
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