Histoire     IMMIGRATION FROM HOPE TO REALITY

Notions

The reasons for emigration:

Etat de droit:

The reasons for immigration

Front pionnier:

Révolution industrielle:

A cosmopolitan mosaic:

Frontière ouverte / fermée

 

Vocabulary

Qualifié / non qualifié:

Immigration de masse:

Racisme:

 

 The reasons for immigration Push factors (why they wanted to emigrate, to leave their country) Pull factors (why they were attracted to, immigrated to the USA)
Ex: living in a state which didn’t respect the rule of law (No one is above the law so as to prevent dictatorship, promote democracy and protect the rights of the people)
= political push factor		 Ex: US booming economy with the frontier (newly-explored territory in the West) and the Industrial Revolution (shift from hand home-based to mass factory production)
= economic pull factor
The nature
of
immigration		 Old Immigration New Immigration
1st wave of immigrants from Northern and Western Europe
from the 1840s to the 1880s
from a small immigration...
skilled, unskilled workers & farmers		 2nd wave of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe
from the 1880s to 1920
...to a mass immigration
mostly unskilled labour
The impact
of
immigration		 Positive impact Negative impact
Successful integration :
self-made men (successful through hard work) climbing the social ladder
A multicultural society :
a cosmopolitan (many different ethnic communities) mosaic (living side by side, not mixing together) = a salad bowl not a melting pot (assimilation)		 More discrimination, more prejudice (racism) against.
More border control?
- officially open border: free movement of people for easy immigration
- their wish: closed border to prevent or restrict immigration