Migration and Geographical Change

ISBN: 9780521226875

出版社: Cambridge University Press

出版年: 28-Dec-84

页数: 108

定价: 60.00

装帧: 简装

内容简介

Human migration is deeply embedded in both the history and present
functioning of modern society. At the broadest scale international
migrations have played a major role in shaping the world cultural map:
immigration is at the very root of societies like the United States??? Canada
or Australia and has profoundly marked many countries of Latin
America or Africa. Europe??? once the great exporter of people to these
countries??? became a net importer of labour in recent decades: there are
approximately fifteen million labour migrants in Western European
countries at present. The numbers of people involved may indeed be
enormous: some 67 million people crossed an ocean between 1800 and
1950??? of whom 60 million were Europeans and of these two out of every
three went to the USA; some 10 million Italians left home to settle abroad
between 1846 and 1932; there are many more people of Irish origin living
outside Ireland??? in the USA or Britain especially??? than within it. Equally???
it has been estimated that some 7.7 million people were involved in intra-