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The mass international human migration from European countries to Canada and the United States and, to a lesser extent, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, that occurred during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Around 50 million people were involved, driven mainly by poverty, unemployment, greater religious or political freedom and/or the desire to start a new life.

John A.MatthewsSwansea University
10.4135/9781446247501.n1761

BainesD (1991) Emigration from Europe 1815–1930.London: Macmillan.
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