World History › Section U · Life and labor in the industrial world › Topic U.4

Communities in diaspora

Between the 1840s and 1914, tens of millions of Europeans, Chinese, Indians and Japanese left home for work abroad. They built communities that kept ties to their homelands while changing the places where they settled. This topic follows who moved, why, and how they were received.

In this topic

  • An age of mass migration
  • Why Europeans left
  • Where Europeans went
  • Worked example: Italy's swallows
  • The Chinese diaspora
  • Building communities abroad
  • The Indian diaspora
  • Japanese emigration
  • Walls against Asian migrants
  • Worked example: Australia's dictation test
  • Common mistakes to avoid
  • Key takeaways

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