Summary: The Rise Of Mass Migration

Prompt #4 Throughout history, the migration of humans from one place to another has played an important role in how urban centers have developed over time. As a result of the migration of people with different and diverse cultures arriving to new urban areas, there has been tension between varying cultural and ethnic groups who come together. The rise of industrialization during the 19th and 20th centuries and international trading allowed for the rise of mass migration especially within the United States. Urban centers in the United States grew due to the increasing migration, which in turn also increased segregation and the formation of ghettos. Immigration to the United States has played an integral part in forming the nation’s identity. When looking back into the history of United
During the expansion of the transcontinental railroads, the mass migration of Chinese immigrants coming in to work on the railways on the western coast increase at a drastic rate. Due to Chinese immigrants working under indentured contracts, their pay was lower than their American counterparts. Lower wages meant lower standards of living, but it also meant that more jobs were given to the new immigrants who would work for less than American-born men. This caused tension between the two groups, with only the businessmen benefitting from having to pay lower wages. Chinese immigration would at one point come to a halt once the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed, making Chinese immigration into the nation illegal. This led to a brief period of illegal human smuggling of Chinese migrants until the act was later repealed alongside segregation of Chinese children from school and granting American-born Chinese children citizenship into the United