131-259 The Migrant Experience

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Available as 131-359 at 3rd-year level.

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Prerequisites

Normally, 25 points of first year History.

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Subject Description

A study of the great migrations to the United States and to Australia in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The emphasis will be on the mass migrations from Europe to the United States between c. 1880 and the 1920s, and on European and Asian migrations to Australia from c. 1850 to the 1920s. The subject seeks to develop an understanding of the causes and character of major migrations, of host society responses, and of the leaving, arriving and settling experiences of migrants, comparing the United States and the Australian experience. The study includes an exploration of the development of resistance to immigration in both countries, and the influence of United States experience on Australian responses. The subject deals with major concepts and issues in migration, and with the changing historiography of migration history.

Assessment

Written work in the form of essays and class papers up to 5000 words.