Scandinavian-American Migration Studies

Northerners- British who migrated to the US settled in Virginia and Maryland and they came in as indentured servants. After the independence, their migration the US slow because America didn’t approve of their government. When Scotland suffered a severe economic depression in 1921, about 1.5 million Scots migrated to the US and many were professional and skills laborers. Many Scotch-Irish migrated to the US in the 18th century due to economic depression brought on by textile slump in Ireland. many also migrated due to religious freedom and farming. It is estimated that about 1 billion people from Francs migrated to the US religious persecution and economic opportunity.

The Great Migration was a massive movement of African Americans from the South to the North from 1863 to 1960. The largest spike in this migration occurred from about 1910 to 1920.

Charlotte (Jacobson) Wehrspann is a wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She has lived a full life and continues to experience life through her husband, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, extended family, and the church. This is her story of her life; 96 years and counting. A life filled with happiness, sorrow, loss, hope, life, love, and God.

The migration of European settlers and culture to North America is an often examined area. One aspect of this, however, is worthy of deeper analysis. The conquest of North America by Europeans and American settlers from the 16th to 19th centuries had a profound effect on the indigenous political landscape by defining a new relationship dynamic between natives and settlers, by upsetting existing native political, economic and military structures, and by establishing a paradigm where the indigenous peoples felt they had to resist the European and American incursions. The engaging and brilliant works of Andres Rensendez and Steve Inskeep, entitled respectively “A Land So Strange” and “Jacksonland”, provide excellent insights and aide to this analysis.

The term immigrant is defined as “a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence” (“Immigrant”). In her autobiography, Barefoot Heart, Elva Trevino Hart speaks of her immigrant ways and how she fought to become the Mexican-American writer she is today. She speaks about the working of land, the migrant camps, plus the existence she had to deal with in both the Mexican and American worlds. Hart tells the story of her family and the trials they went through along with her physical detachment and sense of alienation at home and in the American (Anglo) society. The loneliness and deprivation was the desire that drove Hart to defy the odds and acquire the unattainable sense of belonging into American

Immigration has existed around the world for centuries, decades, and included hundreds of cultures. Tired of poverty, a lack of opportunities, unequal treatment, political corruption, and lacking any choice, many decided to emigrate from their country of birth to seek new opportunities and a new and better life in another country, to settle a future for their families, to work hard and earn a place in life. As the nation of the opportunities, land of the dreams, and because of its foundation of a better, more equal world for all, the United States of America has been a point of hope for many of those people. A lot of nationals around the world have ended their research for a place to call home in the United States of America. By analyzing

The continuities of the migration from the south to the north. At this time about 500,000 african american southerners migrated to the north for better opportunities including better rights and industrial jobs,but there was some components that were negatively the same as the south side. As african americans they still faced oppression. This form of oppression consisted of discrimination and racial profiling. Sooner or later the neighborhoods the increased with african american population became known as the ghetto. One overall component that continued to happen was the lynching of african americans. Although this was illegal in the north,many people of the caucasian ethnicity did not like the fact that many african americans were overpopulating

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I interview my father who arrive to the united states from Mexico The major problem that motive my father to migrate to the U.S.A were as he mention on pages (1-2) was an economically problem has he said since he was a child he grew up in a farm with his parents and brothers and sisters and had many struggles since the only one that work was his father. My grandfather did all he could to give him an education and a better life that he had that’s the same idea he view for me when he become a father he was young and money was like the priority to care for the necessary that a child has, but to get money you need to have a job. With salary he earned at my grandfather farm he knew was not enough to support himself and a child and he could

Perhaps many the troubles that plague Scandinavian-Americanist historians and scholars stem from the general lack of public attention to their topic of study. Although many Americans still claim Scandinavian roots and Swedish and Norwegian communities still remain lively in several regions of the United States, the migrant group lacks the impact or presence (both in popular culture as well as demographically) that Irish of Italian migrants register in the mind of the American public. Regardless of the reasons for the field’s lack of prevalence in the greater field of U.S.-immigration studies Scandinavian-American migration studies remains difficult to penetrate for outsiders to the field. A small section of the published works covering Scandinavian-American

Immigrants who were poor and unskilled traveled to America for a better way of life. Many came from countries such as Italy and Germany to flee persecution, pursue religious freedom and the economic opportunities that the United States offered. During the wave of new immigrants arriving in America leading up to the turn of the 20th Century, most settled in large cities where they hoped to find employment and a better life compared to their native lands. However, due to a number of factors, this new life in America was not very pleasant. Many found that simply working hard to better the lives of their families was not enough. When they came to America, they arrived without much money, property or friends. They first had to find a place

The authors remained limited in the questions posed as does the field in its current state. Although older contributors, such as Lovoll, to the field adopted newer sub-focuses such as the study of migrant women, Scandinavian-Americanists remain virtually unchallenged in their studies. In Betty A. Bergland’s and Lori Ann Lahlum’s book, Norwegian American Women: Migration, Communities, and Identities, Lovoll wrote an included essay that discussed Norwegian women and their role in immigration to the United States. The embracement of new topics still does very little to reinvigorate the discussion between Scandinavian-

By 1885, every member of the Anders Larsen and Berthe (Syversdatter) Wahl family had immigrated to North America. One’s thoughts probably paint a picture of a father, mother, and several children travelling together. However, in reality, it took over 15 years for the entire family to step foot in the New World.

The close scholarly ties between Scandinavian-Americanists in their field has produced a status quo and non-volatile environment. The field lacks the criticism or competitiveness seen in other fields. Those within the respected ranks of Scandinavian-Americanist studies differ little in their interpretations of the history of Scandinavian migrants in the United States and how those migrants developed their ethnic identity. Authors who strayed from the traditional themes and instead focus on a more unique history like Janet A. Rasmussen with her book, New Lands, New Lives: Scandinavian Immigrants to the Pacific Northwest, still harbor familiar members of the Scandinavian-Americanist community. Her book, which focused on the Midwest and turned

Many of the books that discuss facets of Scandinavian-American migration and its history are compilations of essays by multiple authors in the field, many of those authors being serial contributors to the general discussion of Scandinavian-American migration history. Blanck, Anderson, and Lovoll are often featured, co-author, or edit the works of other writers in the field and are notable in their amount of participation.