Immigration patterns

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Immigration patterns
Canada and Australia currently have a higher
percentage of immigrants in relation to
population.
Canada has a diverse population. The country
promotes multi-culturalism.
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Australia also has a large percentage of
immigrants.
At times Australia has had a vigorous immigration
program that leans toward workers.
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There are millions of guest workers in the
Middle East. In some countries (UAE) guest
workers outnumber the native population.
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U.S. immigration patterns
Prior to independence, some one million Europeans
immigrated to the U.S. with another million
arriving before 1840.
The majority came from Great Britain, but many
came from all over northern Europe.
This doesnt include the roughly 400,000 slaves
that were brought to the U.S.
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Emigration from Europe to the Americas in the
19th and 20th centuries.
Among the most significant migrations in recent
centuries
Most went to the USA but the Spanish and
Portuguese settled in Central and South America
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Second peak of immigration
Although many came from all over northern Europe,
from 1607 to 1840, the majority of immigrants
came from Great Britain.
More than 90 of immigrants from the 1840s to
1850s came from Northern Europe, but most were
from Ireland and Germany.
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1840s 1850s-The two largest groups of
European immigrants were from Ireland and Germany.
They were fleeing economic conditions in Ireland
and political unrest in Germany.
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Thousands of Irish immigrants and civil war
veterans built the Transcontinental Railroad from
the East while Chinese immigrant laborers built
the railroad from the West.
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Late 1800s
After a lull during the Civil War, immigration
picked up again with most immigrants being from
northern Europe. A large number of Scandinavians
arrived.
The pull factor was the booming Industrial
Revolution occurring in the USA.
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After a long and arduous ocean voyage, The
debarkation point for hundreds of thousands of
immigrants from Europe was Ellis Island. Their
first view of America.
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Third Peak 1890s - 1914
Most immigrants arrived from Russia, Southern,
and Eastern Europe. What was happening in these
countries at the time?
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Immigration declined again during the Great
Depression.
Immigration picked up again after World War II
when we made changes in laws allowing more people
in.
The mix of immigrants also continued to change.
Asian quotas were lifted in the 1960s.
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How did the USA actually have an issue with
emigration in the late 1960s and early 1970s?
A small group of Americans fled to Canada for
asylum to avoid the draft. They would be
arrested if they returned. They were granted
full amnesty by Jimmy Carter.
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After the fall of Vietnam in 1975, tens of
thousands of Vietnamese were allowed into the
country.
The first wave consisted of many of those who
had worked with the Americans as well as
professionals.
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Subsequent Vietnamese immigrants took a more
circuitous route, escaping into Thailand or
becoming Boat People.
Many ended up picked up in the South China Sea
and were relocated to refugee camps in Thailand.
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Today the USA has an active refugee and asylum
program that allows people from conflict areas to
enter the U.S.
This includes people from such diverse countries
as Sudan, El Salvador, and Iraq.
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As of 2006, the United States accepts more legal
immigrants as permanent residents than all other
countries in the world combined. Since the
liberalization of immigration policy in 1965, the
number of first- generation immigrants living in
the United States has quadrupled, from 9.6
million in 1970 to about 38 million in 2007.
1,046,539 people were naturalized as U.S.
citizens in 2008..
The leading emigrating countries to the United
States were Mexico, India, and the Philippines
Family reunification accounts for approximately
two-thirds of legal immigration to the US every
year.8
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The immigration reform laws of 1965 changed the
face of America.
It eliminated the preference for European
immigrants and established legal guidelines for
immigrants from all parts of the world.
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Remittances account for a large part of the
national income in a number of source
immigration countries.
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Immigration is a hot button topic to most
Americans and will play a large role in the next
presidential elections.