Great migrations Great migrations The Dust Bowl, also known as the "Dirty Thirties", was a series of dust storms in the central United States, caused by a massive drought and decades of inappropriate farming techniques. Beginning in 1930 and lasting until 1941, this ecological disaster caused an exodus from the Oklahoma Panhandle region and also the surrounding Great Plains in which around 300,000 to 400,000 Americans were displaced. ** Topsoil across millions of acres was blown away because the indigenous sod had been broken for wheat farming and the vast herds of buffalo were no longer fertilizing the rest of the native grasses. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dust Bowl"
The expulsion of Germans after World War II was the mass deportation of people considered Germans (both Reichsdeutsche and Volksdeutsche) from Soviet-occupied areas outside the Soviet occupation zone of Germany, and is a major part of the German exodus from Eastern Europe after World War II. The process, which aimed to ethnically homogenize nation states, began before the Potsdam Conference, which would call for it to be conducted in an "orderly and humane manner". Due to the postwar atmosphere of chaos, famine, disease and killing casualties were high. The estimated number varies by source, from circa 500,000 to over 2 million. The German deportation and migration affected up to 16.5 million Germans and was the largest of several similar post-World War II migrations orchestrated by the victorious Western Allies and the Soviet Union, which included the resettlements and expulsions of millions of Poles, Ukrainians and Jews. ...more on Wikipedia about "Expulsion of Germans after World War II"
* Great Migration is a term often used to describe the early medieval migrations of peoples in Europe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Great Migration"
The Great Migration is a term used to describe the mass migration of African Americans from the southern United States to the industrial centers of the Northeast and Midwest between the 1910s and 1960s. The Great Migration also initiated the change from a primarily rural to a predominantly urban lifestyle for African Americans. The routes north came to be known as the "chicken bone express," because of the supposed litter left by the migrants from their lunches by the side of the road as they moved. ...more on Wikipedia about "Great Migration (African American)"
In South African history, the Great Trek was an eastward and north-eastward migration of the segment of Afrikaners (known as Boers), who as descendants primarily of immigrants from western mainland Europe, lived a semi-nomadic pastoralist life in the eastern frontier region of the Cape. It began in 1835 as an attempt to escape the recently imposed British rule, its Anglicisation policies and the constant border wars in the east, as well as to ease pressure on an overcrowding frontier where land was becoming scarce. ...more on Wikipedia about "Great Trek"
This is the history of Chinese immigration to Canada. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of Chinese immigration to Canada"
Australian immigration has a chequered history. Initial Human migration to the continent now called Australia began over 50,000 years ago when the ancestors of Indigenous Australians arrived via the islands of the Malay Archipelago and New Guinea. From the early 1600s onwards the continent witnessed the first coastal landings and exploration by Europeans; however permanent European settlement started only from 1788 with the establishment of the British Crown colony of New South Wales. ...more on Wikipedia about "History of immigration to Australia"
Immigration in Brazil ( immigration occurs when people leave one country to settle permanently in another) has been a very important demographic factor in the composition, structure and history of human population in Brazil, and all its attending factors and consequences, such as culture, economy, education, racial issues, etc. Besides, the USA, and Argentina, Brazil has received the largest amount of immigrants than anywhere else in the Western Hemishpere. ...more on Wikipedia about "Immigration in Brazil"
This article concerns the history of immigration and contemporary immigration to what is now known as the United Kingdom. You may also wish to see Immigration to Ireland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Immigration to the United Kingdom"
The Migration Period is a name given by historians to a human migration which occurred within the period AD 300– 900 in the area which comprises Central Europe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Migration Period"
The Social effects of Hurricane Katrina are complex and yet to be fully determined. Initially, many lives were lost, while many more were disrupted. The event has left hundreds of thousands without access to their homes or jobs, has separated people from their loved ones, and has inflicted both physical and mental distress on those who suffered through the storm and its aftermath. Unlike economic damage, human suffering is extremely difficult to quantify, but it is clear that Hurricane Katrina has caused more immediate anguish than any other natural disaster to ever hit America. However, in the longer term, the effect will likely be an end to some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in the United States, and end to a large degree the cycle of self-perpetuating poverty contained therein. ...more on Wikipedia about "Social effects of Hurricane Katrina"
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