POLS2094 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Non-Refoulement, Blue-Collar Worker, Burlingame Treaty
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19th and early 20th century major period of international migration. In the leading countries of industrializing europe demand for labor exceeding supply. 20th century immigration slowed due to three factors: war and depression from 1914, need for increased state control, racism. The nation state: new nations had to be fashioned from heterogeneity, by the beginning of the world war 1 all the great powers seeking to control movement across their borders, codified. Defi(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:862)outside(cid:396)s(cid:863: defining outsiders defining the nation. Identification becomes extremely important for modern states for all means of social control. In the us 1856 federal government issued passports before that states had main rights to immigration although federal laws on numbers of immigrants to deck space regulated immigration to a small extent. Racism: the first limitations based on race, racism is not new, colonialism, 19th century is the rise of imperialism, scientific racism 19th century darwinism, the us .
