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Title: Trading Barriers: Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization
Citation Type: Book, Whole
Publication Year: 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4008-8537-4; 978-0-691-17447-1
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Abstract: Migration was once a way for the poor to escape crushing poverty and even an early death. In 1840s and 1850s, more than a million people died in the Great Famine in Ireland, but another million escaped that fate be emigrating to the United States. Thousands more escaped to Great Britain and the British dominions. These migrants also sent money to remaining family members (support known as remittances), saving them from starvation as well. Famine struck again . . .
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Authors: Peters, Margaret, E
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publisher Location: Princeton, New Jersey
Pages: 1-321
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Migration and Immigration
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