emigration

Examples of emigration in the following topics:

• The Mormon Exodus

  • Along their way, some were assigned to establish settlements and to plant and harvest crops for later emigrants.
  • During the winter of 1846–47, the emigrants wintered in Iowa, other nearby states, and the unorganized territory that later became Nebraska, with the largest group residing in Winter Quarters, Nebraska.
  • During the first few years, the emigrants were mostly former occupants of Nauvoo who were following Young to Utah.
  • Later, the emigrants increasingly comprised converts from the British Isles and Europe.
  • Among the emigrants were the Mormon handcart pioneers of 1856–1860.

• Education and Industrialization

  • Human capital flight, more commonly referred to as the "brain drain," is the large-scale emigration of a large group of individuals with technical skills or knowledge.
  • The brain drain is often associated with de-skilling of emigrants in their country of destination, while their country of emigration experiences the draining of skilled individuals.

• Irish Immigration

  • Many emigrated to America in order to escape poverty and death.
  • By 1840, emigration had become a massive, relentless, and efficiently managed national enterprise.
  • Including those who moved to Britain, between 9 and 10 million Irish people emigrated after 1700.
  • By 1855, almost 2 million Irish had emigrated.

• Mining on the Comstock Lode

  • Gold was discovered in this region—the Gold Canyon—in the spring of 1850 by a company of Mormon emigrants who were part of the Mormon Battalion.
  • Other emigrants followed, camped on the canyon and went to work at mining.

• Characteristics of Members of Different Religions

  • The Jewish community in the U.S. is composed predominantly of Ashkenazi Jews who emigrated from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as their U.S.
  • Many Sikhs emigrated to the United States, and began working on farms in California.

• Elements of economic globalization

  • Migration: Whether it is physicians who emigrate from India and Pakistan to Great Britain or seasonal farm workers emigrating from Mexico to the United States, labor is increasingly mobile.

• Louis XIV and the Huguenots

  • The principle of cuius regio, eius religio had also usually meant that subjects who refused to convert could emigrate, but Louis banned emigration and effectively insisted that all Protestants must be converted.
  • Historians cite the emigration of about 200,000 Huguenots (roughly one-fourth of the Protestant population, or 1% of the French population) who defied royal decrees.

• Abolitionists and the American Ideal

  • Some endorsed colonization in Africa, while others advocated emigration.
  • Colonization ignored the fact that many freed slaves, having lived in America for several generations, considered it their home, and preferred full rights in the United States over emigration.
  • In 1821, the ACS established the colony of Liberia in Africa and assisted the emigration of thousands of former African-American slaves and free blacks (with legislated limits) from the United States.

• The Mixteca-Puebla Tradition

  • They are the fourth largest indigenous group in Mexico, although many have emigrated out of traditional Mixteca areas into other parts of the state, Mexico City, and even the United States.

• Crisis in Berlin

  • Between 1945 and 1950, over 15 million people emigrated from Soviet-occupied Eastern European countries to the West.
  • During the early months of 1961, the Soviet government actively sought a means of halting the emigration of its population to the West.