Emigration From the British Isles to the U.S.A. in 1841: Part I. Emigration From the British Isles

Erickson, Charlotte

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“…The reliability of the occupation information in the passenger shi p lists, however, has been questioned by a number of researchers (Erickson 1989, Cohn 1992). Since thi s information is an important element of the story told here, it is worth exploring the reliability of these data in more detail.…”

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The Entry into the U.S. Labor Market of Antebellum European Immigrants, 1840–1860

Ferrie

1997

Explorations in Economic History

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This study examines the occupational mobility of antebellum immigrants as they entered the U.S. White collar, skilled, and semi-skilled immigrants left unskilled jobs more rapidly after arrival than farmers and unskilled workers. British and German immigrants fared better than the Irish; literate immigrants in rapidly growing counties and places with many immigrants fared best. These findings have implications for (1) the accuracy of estimates of immigrant occupational mobility; (2) the size of the human capital transfer resulting from antebellum immigration; and (3) the causes of the difficulty experienced by some immigrant groups in transferring their skills to the U.S.

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Section: The Sample and Its Accuracymentioning

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The Entry into the U.S. Labor Market of Antebellum European Immigrants, 1840–1860

Ferrie

1997

Explorations in Economic History

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“…27 She called this the 'friends and relatives' variable. 28 Dudley Baines has also raised this point. Following a pioneering analysis, using census data of departures from Britain based on a sophisticated estimation of net outward movement from each county between 1861 and 1900, Baines argued that there was 'no simple set of economic and social characteristics [including literacy and employment opportunities] that would explain why many emigrants left one area and few left another 1 .…”

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Emigration from Europe to Colonial Destinations: Some Nineteenth-Century Australian and South African perspectives

Haines¹,

Shlomowitz²

1996

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In a seminal paper published nearly forty years ago, Frank Thistlethwaite argued that the migration process ought to be liberated from the stereotypical historiographical tradition. This tradition offered a homogeneous image of undifferentiated waves of uprooted peasants and artisans suffering from epidemics of emigration fever during times of crisis. Instead, he argued, a close study of the individual or group experience of emigrants from particular regions, to specific destinations, would reveal a great deal about the motives, characteristics and pathways of people participating in highly distinctive movements. Thus, emigration might be seen not as a phenomenon in its own right, but as an aspect of a process that stimulated the seasonal circulatory movements of specific occupational groups not only within Europe, but extending outwards around the Mediterranean basin and often culminating in a circular navigation of the ‘Atlantic lake’. For millions of European workers, a natural extension of this ‘proletariat globetrotting’ was an individually-organized one-way voyage to the New World.

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“…9. Erickson (1989) shows by her examination of passenger lists that the majority of passengers from Ireland in the 1870s arranged their own tickets. 10.…”

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“…Certainly many emigrants, even to North America, could be classified as labourers (based on the initial jobs which they expected to find at their destinations), but all were not unskilled (Erickson, 1989). They were prepared to turn their hands to a variety of jobs: in the United States they were over-represented in occupational groups like urban labourers and servants, miners and construction workers.…”

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The Context of Migration: The Example of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century

Johnson¹

1990

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

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"A classic case where out-migration interacted with many other geographical phenomena is provided by rural Ireland in the nineteenth century. The apparent turning point was the Great Famine of the 1840s, but the areas with the greatest suffering from starvation did not necessarily show the greatest population decline, suggesting that other forces were active. Considerable economic and social changes were already taking place before the Famine: fertility was being reduced, later marriage was becoming established and considerable emigration was already taking place. Immediately after the Famine those areas which had been hardest hit often reverted to pre-Famine conditions and did not show strong population decline until the 1870s. The Famine was a most serious event, but the modernization of Irish rural life, which linked emigration with changes in family structure, agriculture and population numbers, was more important in bringing about geographical change."

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Emigration From the British Isles to the U.S.A. in 1841: Part I. Emigration From the British Isles

Cited by 16 publications

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The Entry into the U.S. Labor Market of Antebellum European Immigrants, 1840–1860

The Entry into the U.S. Labor Market of Antebellum European Immigrants, 1840–1860

Emigration from Europe to Colonial Destinations: Some Nineteenth-Century Australian and South African perspectives

The Context of Migration: The Example of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century

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