International Immigration in the Antebellum South

战前南部的国际移民

• 批准号: 9223180
• 负责人: Donald Schaefer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Washington State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-06-01 至 1994-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9223180&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Immigration; Antebellum; South

There has long been a controversy over the impact of immigration on the United States economy. In the North the influx of migrants in the early 19th century created downward pressures on urban wages, mitigated only by the frontier which provided a safety valve for the existing wage earners who moved there to escape the lack of opportunity in the coastal cities. At the same time many immigrants moved directly to the less settled regions increasing national output. For the South during the Antebellum period there is great controversy regarding the geographic and economic mobility of international immigrants. The purpose of this research is to analyze the internal migration behavior of international immigration to New Orleans, the major port of entry in the South. Migration behavior will be investigated by developing a sample of foreign passengers arriving at New Orleans in 1849 and tracing the location and economic fortunes of these passengers in 1850 and 1860 using the manuscript census of population and indexes to those censuses. This research is important because it will shed light on the role immigration played in the economic development of the United States.

关于移民对美国经济的影响一直存在争议。在北方，世纪初移民的涌入给城市工资带来了下降的压力，只有边境才能缓解这种压力，因为边境为现有的工薪阶层提供了一个安全阀，他们搬到那里逃避沿海城市缺乏机会的生活。与此同时，许多移民直接迁移到定居较少的地区，增加了国家产出。对于南北战争前时期的南方来说，国际移民的地理和经济流动性存在很大争议。本研究的目的是分析国际移民的内部迁移行为新奥尔良，在南方的主要入境口岸。移民行为将通过开发一个样本的外国乘客抵达新奥尔良在1849年和跟踪的位置和经济财富的这些乘客在1850年和1860年使用人口普查手稿和索引这些普查。这项研究很重要，因为它将阐明移民在美国经济发展中所起的作用。