TY - CHAP
T1 - International Migration in the Atlantic Economy 1850–1940
AU - Hatton, Timothy J.
AU - Ward, Zachary
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - This chapter focuses on the economic analysis of what has been called the age of mass migration, 1850–1913, and its aftermath up to 1940. This has captured the interest of generations of economic historians and is still a highly active area of research. Here we concentrate on migration from Europe to the New World as this is where the bulk of the literature lies. We provide an overview of this literature focusing on key topics: the determinants of migration, the development of immigration policy, immigrant selection and assimilation, and the economic effects of mass migration as well as its legacy through to the present day. We explain how what were once orthodoxies have been revisited and revised and how changes in our understanding have been influenced by advances in methodology, which in turn have been made possible by the availability of new and more comprehensive data. Despite these advances, some issues remain contested or unresolved, and, true to cliometric tradition, we conclude by calling for more research.
AB - This chapter focuses on the economic analysis of what has been called the age of mass migration, 1850–1913, and its aftermath up to 1940. This has captured the interest of generations of economic historians and is still a highly active area of research. Here we concentrate on migration from Europe to the New World as this is where the bulk of the literature lies. We provide an overview of this literature focusing on key topics: the determinants of migration, the development of immigration policy, immigrant selection and assimilation, and the economic effects of mass migration as well as its legacy through to the present day. We explain how what were once orthodoxies have been revisited and revised and how changes in our understanding have been influenced by advances in methodology, which in turn have been made possible by the availability of new and more comprehensive data. Despite these advances, some issues remain contested or unresolved, and, true to cliometric tradition, we conclude by calling for more research.
KW - Immigrants and emigrants
KW - Mass migration
KW - The Atlantic economy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85160704123&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-00181-0_41
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-00181-0_41
M3 - Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
SN - 9783030001803
SP - 301
EP - 329
BT - Handbook of Cliometrics, Second Edition
PB - Springer International Publishing Switzerland
ER -