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The standard references on nineteenth-century migration often vary in their quotes of total population overseas outflows: some authors quote that between 1821 and 1915 there were some 46 million population overseas outflows1 while some other authors put the number at 55 million.2 Emigration from Europe to the New World accounted for most of this movement. Many returned home, especially in the later nineteenth century, but this intercontinental mass migration remains unsurpassed. It affected the demography, and income and wealth distributions of both sending and receiving countries. While there were large flows of emigrants to Canada, Australia, and Latin America, most people went to the United States. Between 1861 and 1910, the United States took close to two-thirds of all gross recorded international inflows.3 Smaller but still substantial streams of migrant flow from Europe to closer destinations developed: from Spain to Algeria, for example.4 These intra-Mediterranean flows had effects at home and away, but remained just that—regional flows, substituting for access to the faster growing Atlantic economy.
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Caruana Galizia, P. (2015). Explaining Mediterranean Emigration. In: Mediterranean Labor Markets in the First Age of Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137400840_4
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