(COI) Migration in an Interconnected World Lesson

Migration in an Interconnected World Lesson

Migration will also occur as the world became more and more interconnected. Changes in demographics in both industrialized and unindustrialized societies will present new challenges to existing patterns of living of this time period. New modes of transportation will also increase migrants to the cities as well as back to their home societies should they want to go back. Relocation was not uncommon as individuals sought work. This new global capitalist economy will continue to rely on coerced and semicoerced labor migration, including slavery, indentured servitude, and convict labor. The effects migration will have will also be globally impactful. Most migrants were male which left women in home societies to take new roles that had previously been occupied by men. Migrants also were creating ethnic enclaves in different parts of the world that helped transplant their culture into new environments (think: Chinatown, Little Italy, etc). Not all receiving societies were accommodating to these new immigrants though as various degrees of ethnic and racial prejudice were experienced as well as states attempting to regulate the flow of people across their borders.  

 

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