Age Of Mass Migration Research Articles

Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification and Skill Transferability Among Mexicans in the Age of Mass Migration.

An extensive literature has focused on the association between human, social, and economic capital and better immigrant economic attainment, and how these characteristics contribute to stratification among members of the same group. However, few studies have explored how racialization processes contribute to these within-group differences. We examine the role of intragroup differences in skin tone in stratifying outcomes among Mexican immigrants in the early twentieth century. We create a new dataset of 1910-1940 Mexican border-crossing records that we then link to the U.S. 1940 census. We use characteristics at entry to predict income in 1940 and find that-in line with dominant assimilation theories-standard measures of capital are associated with within-group attainment differences. However, we also find skin tone to be a source of within-group stratification: being perceived as having darker skin is associated with lower subsequent economic attainment than being perceived as having lighter skin. Furthermore, whereas human and social capital transcended context to allow migrants to transfer those skills anywhere, the effect of skin tone was significant only in Texas and not in other major receiving places like California. We argue that although standard measures of assimilation typically predict later outcomes, the stratifying effect of skin tone has long been a feature of Mexican immigration.

The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country: Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration

The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country: Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration

The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country: Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration

The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country: Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration

"Like Salt in Water": Toward a History of Jewish Immigrants' Suicide in Urban America, 1890–1910

Abstract: During the early twentieth century, suicide among Jewish immigrants in the United States was hardly uncommon. The American Yiddish press regularly reported on suicide cases, and Jewish public figures acknowledged the phenomenon's frequency. Uncovering this forgotten chapter in American Jewish history and drawing on immigrants' letters, reports from the Yiddish press, burial records, and autobiographies, this article explores patterns of despair and self-violence among eastern European Jewish immigrants and their reflections in the American Jewish press, specifically in Yiddish. It traces expressions of immigrant suffering and identifies patterns of cultural failure to revisit the emotional and cultural dynamics of east European Jewish immigration to the United States in the age of mass migration. By focusing on marginal cases in American Jewish history, this article highlights a broad cultural spectrum of immigrant experiences.

"Like Salt in Water": Toward a History of Jewish Immigrants' Suicide in Urban America, 1890–1910

Abstract: During the early twentieth century, suicide among Jewish immigrants in the United States was hardly uncommon. The American Yiddish press regularly reported on suicide cases, and Jewish public figures acknowledged the phenomenon's frequency. Uncovering this forgotten chapter in American Jewish history and drawing on immigrants' letters, reports from the Yiddish press, burial records, and autobiographies, this article explores patterns of despair and self-violence among eastern European Jewish immigrants and their reflections in the American Jewish press, specifically in Yiddish. It traces expressions of immigrant suffering and identifies patterns of cultural failure to revisit the emotional and cultural dynamics of east European Jewish immigration to the United States in the age of mass migration. By focusing on marginal cases in American Jewish history, this article highlights a broad cultural spectrum of immigrant experiences.

Working Their Way Up? US Immigrants’ Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration

Whether immigrants advance in labor markets during their lifetimes relative to natives is a fundamental question in the economics of immigration. We examine linked census records for five cohorts spanning 1850–1940, when immigration to the United States was at its peak. We find a U-shaped pattern of assimilation: immigrants were “catching up” to natives in the early and later cohorts, but not in between. This change was not due to shifts in immigrants’ source countries. Instead, it was rooted in men’s early-career occupations, which we associate with structural change, strengthening complementarities, and large immigration waves in the 1840s and 1900s. (JEL J15, J24, J61, J82, N31, N32)

Sir Thomas More and the Tragedy of Citizenship

Abstract: This essay explores the historical and generic basis for a tragic reading of The Book of Sir Thomas More . The early modern period’s dominant forms of tragedy (such as revenge tragedy and historical tragedy) typically focus on the dynastic-imperial struggles of aristocratic powers against the backdrop of centralization and state-building. Sir Thomas More inverts this representational hierarchy by leaving the monarch un-represented, relegating to the background the well-known factional conflicts that undergirded the Henrician Reformation. Instead, the play dramatizes the history of Tudor consolidation from the perspective of London’s citizenry, who are made to grapple with the meaning of their own freedom in an age of mass migration. The result, I suggest, is a charter myth not of the nation-state but of London and its civic institutions: a tragic meditation on the place of the city and its citizens in the world.

The sleeping giant who left for America: Danish land inequality and emigration during the age of mass migration

What is the role of access to land for the decision to emigrate? We consider the case of Denmark between 1868 and 1908, when a large number of people left for America. We exploit the fact that the Danish agrarian reforms between 1784 and 1807 had differential impacts on the class of landless laborers around the country, and use detailed parish-level data police protocols of emigrants; population censuses and land registers to show that areas with a more unequal distribution of land witnessed greater emigration. We demonstrate a sizable effect: a one standard deviation increase in the Theil index implies an increase in emigration of 18 percent above the mean.

The Age of Mass Migration in Argentina: Social Mobility, Effects on Growth, and Selection Patterns

The Age of Mass Migration in Argentina: Social Mobility, Effects on Growth, and Selection Patterns

Shifting Identity/ies in the Literature of Arab Immigration and Exile: Hanan Al-Shaykh’s Hikayat Zahra (The Story of Zahra) as a Case Study

In this age of mass migration, refugee crises, and global mobility, it could be argued that the experience of displacement, relocation, migration, and diaspora is no longer the exception but the rule. The tension between the centre and the periphery, the ‘homeland’ and the ‘host land’ raises, time and again, familiar issues of belonging, allegiance, affinity, estrangement and alienation. It is on this perspective- following various paths among which the postcolonial theory- that the aim of this paper is to try to shed light, and more precisely on the notion of “shifting identity/ies”/concepts of identity and difference based on Hanan Al-Shaykh’s Hikayat Zahra/The Story of Zahra .This paper hopes to answer the following question raised in the novel “Does the émigré become abnormal once he has departed his own land?” Keywords : migration-global- diaspora-postcolonial theory-identity-shifting-alienation DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/92-02 Publication date: October 31 st 2022

Reimagining Citizenship: A Review of Angela Banks’ Civic Education in the Age of Mass Migration

This review of Angela M. Banks’ book, Civic Education in the Age of Mass Migration, provides an overview of the book and highlights timely and important issues that may be of interest to most civic educators and researchers. Emphasizing her expertise as a legal and immigration scholar, the reviewers discuss Banks’ incisive examination of the boundaries of citizenship in civic education.

Civic Education in the Age of Mass Migration: Implications for Theory and Practice by Angela M. Banks. New York: Teachers College Press, 2021. 160 pp. US$105.00 (cloth); US$34.95 (paper); US$27.96 (e-book). ISBN 9780807765791, 9780807765807, 9780807779798.

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsCivic Education in the Age of Mass Migration: Implications for Theory and Practice by Angela M. Banks. New York: Teachers College Press, 2021. 160 pp. US$105.00 (cloth); US$34.95 (paper); US$27.96 (e-book). ISBN 9780807765791, 9780807765807, 9780807779798.Natalia Giraldo-Santiago and Ruth M. LópezNatalia Giraldo-SantiagoUniversity of Houston Search for more articles by this author and Ruth M. LópezUniversity of Houston Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Comparative Education Review Volume 66, Number 3August 2022 Sponsored by the Comparative and International Education Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/720623 Views: 67Total views on this site For permission to reuse, please contact [email protected]PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

From Sweden to America: migrant selection in the transatlantic migration, 1890–1910

AbstractWe examine selection by class origin and gender in the emigration from Sweden to the United States during the age of mass migration. We use full-count census data linked to emigration lists to create a panel of over one million men and women. Class selection was similar for men and women, with children from medium-skilled backgrounds being most likely to leave. Selection on class origin was most pronounced in poorer and less industrialized regions, but similar in rural and urban areas. These patterns suggest that not only returns to skill determined migrant selection but also class-specific costs of migration.

Civic Education in the Age of Mass Migration: Implications for Theory and Practice

Civic Education in the Age of Mass Migration: Implications for Theory and Practice

To migrate or not to migrate: the effect of institutional reforms on immigration decisions of Ottoman citizens to the US

ABSTRACT In the age of mass migration, the US became economically crucial with the development of Atlantic trade and attracted labour flows from the rest of the world. Meanwhile, the Ottoman Empire was suffering severe economic and political problems. The Ottoman citizens of various ethnic origins, such as Turks, Jews, Armenians and Arabs, moved to different countries, including the US, for economic and political reasons. This paper examines the effect of institutional reforms in the Ottoman Empire during the Second Constitutional Era on immigration decisions of different ethnic groups to the US. Data come from the US census data of IPUMS (the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series) for 1910. The empirical results show that the institutional reforms could reduce emigration from the Ottoman Empire through granting additional civil liberties. However, this effect works heterogeneously for different ethnic groups. This result points out the importance of institutional improvements in home countries on reducing migration outflows.

Talents and Cultures: Immigrant Inventors and Ethnic Diversity in the Age of Mass Migration

Abstract We investigate the importance of co-ethnic networks and diversity in determining immigrant inventors’ settlements in the United States by following the location choices of thousands of them across counties during the Age of Mass Migration. To do so, we combine a unique United States Patent and Trademark Office historical patent dataset on immigrants who arrived as adults with Census data and exploit exogenous variation in both immigration flows and diversity induced by former settlements, WWI, and the 1920s Immigration Acts. We find that co-ethnic networks play an important role in attracting immigrant inventors. Yet, we also find that immigrant diversity acts as an additional significant pull factor. This is mainly due to externalities that foster immigrant inventors’ productivity.

US immigrants’ secondary migration and geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration

I study the rates of, selection into, and sorting of European immigrants’ secondary migration within the United States and their geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration. These phenomena are recognized as important components of the economics of immigration, but data constraints have limited prior study of them in this context. As part of the debate over immigrant distribution, they were also major issues in the broader twentieth-century immigration policy debate, which was influenced by the widely held view that immigrants in the early twentieth century were less geographically mobile and specifically more attached to urban areas than were natives and earlier immigrants. I find that immigrants throughout the Age of Mass Migration were at least as likely as natives to make inter-county moves, were more attached to urban areas, were more likely to move to urban destinations, and shared natives’ increasing attachment to urban areas over time. In spite of their mobility, immigrants experienced relatively little assimilation in their place-of-residence distributions relative to natives with time in the United States, though they did experience somewhat more convergence on natives in terms of urbanization. These results help to better understand immigrant assimilation and the effects of immigration during the Age of Mass Migration and imply that the contemporary views of immigrant immobility were either false, oversimplified, or the product of changes in the US economy.

Frontiers of Civilization in the Age of Mass Migration from Eastern Europe

Abstract Between the 1870s and 1914, tens of thousands of peasants left Austria-Hungary’s easternmost provinces of Galicia and Bukovina, heading for the Americas. This article places this episode in the context of contemporary global labour migrations while also emphasizing the distinctive characteristics of this mass exodus. Unlike most migrants around the world, Galicians and Bukovinans emigrated overseas rather than internally; their destinations included the United States, Canada, Brazil and Argentina. By moving, the migrants transformed from objects of Austria’s ‘civilizing mission’ in its eastern borderlands into vehicles for multiple, competing imperial expansion and civilizing projects overseas. From an obstacle to Austria’s ambitions to modernize its eastern periphery, the peasant migrants turned into a disputed resource, simultaneously expanding and threatening Austria’s sovereignty. Paradoxically, because they were less economically developed and more peripheral than their counterparts elsewhere in the empire, Galicians and Bukovinans were more sensitive to shifts in global labour markets than to the policies imposed by their own state officials.

Male and Female Self-Selection During the Age of Mass Migration: The Case of Portugal, 1885-1930

Male and Female Self-Selection During the Age of Mass Migration: The Case of Portugal, 1885-1930

Talents and Cultures: Immigrant Inventors and Ethnic Diversity in the Age of Mass Migration

Talents and Cultures: Immigrant Inventors and Ethnic Diversity in the Age of Mass Migration