International Migration During the 19th Century

Scholary Paper aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Wirtschaft - Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1,0, Veranstaltung: Economic History and Development, 19 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Englisch, Anmerkungen: World trade and politics became increasingly influential in the lives of ordinary people in the 19th century. The demographic revolution and enormous population growth caused wandering paupers, large numbers of circularly migrating harvesters and emigration especially to America. Governments were afraid of social unrest and therefore hoped to stimulate emigration . This paper has the aim to frame the migration exodus which interested in a way or another the whole world during the 19th century. , Abstract: Human migration denotes any movement of groups of people from one locality to another, rather than of individual wanderers. Over the course of prehistoric time and in history, humans have been known to make large migrations . The term "migration" refers to the territorial mobility determined by economic reasons (e.g. the research of better working conditions) or politic reasons (e.g. the research of more suitable situations for the exert of collective and individuals rights).The aim of this paper is to analyze the migration process that interested most of the 19th century. In order to understand the phenomenon I will try to find out the economic and social reasons and the individual motivations of migrants that led to this big and massive movement of human and capital resources. I will then try to understand which has been the importance of this phenomenon in the definition of the new cultural and economic world asset. The history of each of the countries is reflected in their emigration distribution patterns.