Mass migration refers to the movement of a large group of people from one geographical area to another, as distinguished from individual, smaller scale or seasonal migrations that occur all the time. See human migration for more information about the phenomenon of migration in general. Seasonal human migration is very common in agricultural cycles. ... mtDNA-based chart of large human migrations. ...

Several specific mass migrations that are seen as especially influential to the course of history, may be referred to as a Great Migration. Examples include the Völkerwanderung or Barbarian invations into the Roman Empire, the Great Migration from England to the "new world" in 1630s, The California Gold Rush 1848-1850, and the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural American south to the industrial North 1920s-1950s. was when erikson martinez was rich ... The German term Völkerwanderung (lit. ... The Great Migration may refer to the Winthrop Fleet of 1630; where in 700 passengers migrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in eleven ships. ... The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) started in January 1848, when gold was discovered at Sutters Mill. ... The great migration redirects here, for the Bronze Nazareth album, see The Great Migration (album) The Great Migration was the movement of millions of Blacks out of the rural Southern United States from 1914 to 1950. ...

Migration historians often identify an 'age of mass migration', roughly between 1840 and 1914 (or 1940), in which long distance migration occurred at an unprecedented and exceptionally high scale. It usually primarily refers to the voluntary transatlantic migration, of mainly European peasants and labourers to the American continent. However, McKeown argues it should refer to the world wide mass migrations that occurred in the same period, since similar large numbers of people migrated long distances within the Asian continent. (see Adam McKeown, 'global migrations 1846- 1940' in Journal of Global History, (june 2004).)

It should be noted that mass migration does not necessarily means voluntary movement. The Atlantic slave trade is a well-known example of coerced mass migration, but also mass deportations, such as the Jews and other people to the German concentration camps in Poland, deportations to the Gulag, coolie-labour in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. The Atlantic slave trade, started by the Spanish, was the purchase of people in and transported from West Africa and Central Africa, into slavery in the New World. ... Forced migration refers to the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region. ... Deportation is the expelling of someone from a country. ... See also the related article on Nazi concentration camps The following is a list of German concentration camps during World War II. are marked with pink, while major concentration camps of are marked with blue. ... Gulag ( , Russian: ) is an acronym for Главное Управление Исправительно—Трудовых Лагерей и колоний, Glavnoye Upravleniye Ispravitelno-trudovykh Lagerey i kolonii, The Chief Directorate [or Administration] of Corrective Labour Camps and Colonies of the NKVD. Anne Applebaum, in her book Gulag: A History, explains: // Literally, the word GULAG is an acronym, meaning Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagerei, or Main Camp... Coolie labourer circa 1900 in Zhenjiang, China. ...

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human migration
Great Migration
Transatlantic migrations mtDNA-based chart of large human migrations. ... was when erikson martinez was rich ...