In 1847, 215,000 Irish fled their famine-stricken and diseased homeland, and of this number, some 90,000 headed for the shores of Canada. It was both the largest and most diseased and destitute emigration that Canada had ever received, and it caught the colony almost totally by surprise. Many Canadians had been able to follow the course of the potato blight and famine in Ireland, but very few appeared to have considered their impact on the emigration to Canada. They had the assurances of those best informed about the condition of Ireland, the Imperial Government, that, no extraordinary measures would be needed; why should their word be doubted? In the first weeks of the Immigration season, Canadians discovered that the Imperial authorities were wrong; the colony found itself forced to deal with an abnormal immigration with only the meagrest preparations, Canadian emigration officials spent the rest of the season attempting to recover from the shock of those first weeks; all they could do was attempt to. relieve the sufferings of the immigrants to the best of their ability. Stop-gap relief measures were authorized by the Canadian Government for as long as distress and disease were prevalent; private charitable institutions stepped in to provide shelter and care for the helpless among the immigrants. In the end, the colony succeeded, despite its financial difficulties, both in enabling the Irish to regain their health and in making them producing members of the community, something which few Canadians, at the height of the crisis, felt would be possible. This successful 'absorption' of the immigrants, however, had been accomplished only with difficulty and at great cost. This thesis examines the Canadian response, and particularly that of the various levels of government, to the immigration crisis which it faced in 1847 and the strains which this crisis placed upon the relations of the Imperial and Colonial governments. / Arts, Faculty of / History, Department of / Graduate

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by Wai-wah Ng. / Chinese title: / Bibliography: leaves 215-220 / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1982

作者羅榮健. / 複印本. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學硏究院社會學部. / Fu yin ben. / Includes bibliographical references. / Zuo zhe Luo Rongjian. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue yan jiu yuan she hui xue bu. / Chapter 第一章 --- 導論 --- p.1-14 / Chapter 第二章 --- 研究分析架構 --- p.15-27 / Chapter 第三章 --- 研究方法與個案特徵 --- p.28-34 / Chapter 第四章 --- 中國合法移民來港的主要動機及期望 --- p.35-81 / Chapter 〈一〉 --- 中國合法移民的主要來港動機 --- p.37-60 / Chapter 〈二〉 --- 城鄉之差別 --- p.61-68 / Chapter 〈三〉 --- 男女差別 --- p.69-75 / Chapter 〈四〉 --- 中國合法移民來港前對香港的印象與期望 --- p.76-81 / Chapter 第五章 --- 中國合法移民在港之適應問題 / Chapter 〈一〉 --- 中國合法移民在港之生活情況 --- p.84-111 / Chapter 1 --- 就業情況 --- p.84-92 / Chapter 2 --- 交友情況 --- p.93-97 / Chapter 3 --- 社會團體組織之參與 --- p.98-103 / Chapter 4 --- 鄰居關係 --- p.104-106 / Chapter 5 --- 工餘閒暇活動 --- p.107-111 / Chapter 〈二〉 --- 最能令中國合法移民感到快樂不快樂的事情 --- p.112-117 / Chapter 第六章 --- 影響中國合法移民在港之適應的因素 --- p.118-190 / Chapter 〈一〉 --- 個人層面 --- p.119-136 / Chapter 1 --- 移民來港之自願性 --- p.119-124 / Chapter 2 --- 移民來港前對香港情況之了解 --- p.125-128 / Chapter 3 --- 居港時間之長短 --- p.129-132 / Chapter 4 --- 語言的問題 --- p.133-136 / Chapter 〈二〉 --- 社會層面 / Chapter 1 --- 移民來港動機及期望之達成 --- p.137-141 / Chapter 2 --- 社會關係網路之重建 --- p.142-145 / Chapter 3 --- 就業及工作問題 --- p.146-154 / Chapter 4 --- 移民在港之家庭關係 --- p.155-159 / Chapter 5 --- 大眾傳播媒介的影響 --- p.160-165 / Chapter 6 --- 香港社會對移民之社會反應與接納 --- p.166-172 / Chapter 7 --- 香港社會文化環境與移民原地的相近性 --- p.173-178 / Chapter 〈三〉 --- 城鄉之差別 --- p.179-184 / Chapter 〈四〉 --- 男女之差別 --- p.185-190 / Chapter 第七章 --- 中國合法移民在港之適應策略 --- p.191-207 / Chapter 〈一〉 --- 降低其對在港生活的期望或把期望寄望將來 --- p.191-195 / Chapter 〈二〉 --- 將期望寄望於下一代 --- p.196-198 / Chapter 〈三〉 --- 勤奮工作、刻苦耐勞、以及努力學習 --- p.198-201 / Chapter 〈四〉 --- 接受香港人比自己優勝 --- p.201-204 / Chapter 第八章 --- 中國合法移民與非法移民之主要差別 --- p.208-228 / Chapter 〈一〉 --- 中國非法移民之人口特徵 --- p.212-215 / Chapter 〈二〉 --- 非法移民的動機及期望 --- p.216-220 / Chapter 〈三〉 --- 社會適應問題 --- p.221-227 / Chapter 第九章 --- 結論 --- p.229-239 / 注釋 / 參考書目 / Chapter 附錄 --- （一）　被訪合法移民個案簡述 / （二）　被訪非法移民個案簡述

The interest in the effects of immigration on the UK labour market has increased in the past decade. According to the ONS, the upsurge of non-EU citizens in the UK began in 1997 and peaked in 2004 before declining thereafter. Following the A8- accession in 2004, the migration of EU citizens has witnessed a cyclical pattern by increasing till the recession, declining, and then increasing again in recent years. Migration patterns have also changed regionally. For example, traditionally immigrant attracting regions such as London saw the lowest percentage increase in foreign born workers, whereas regions like the North east of England, Wales and Scotland gained popularity between 2005 and 2016. This thesis aims at understanding the impact of immigration on UK regional wages between 1991 and 2016. The analysis presented in this thesis is split by the pre-and post-recession periods using the BHPS and the UKHLS datasets. The instrument variable based estimation results suggest that at the regional level, immigration had an insignificant impact on native average wages in the pre-recession period (1999-2009) but had a negative impact in the postrecession period (2009-2016) in Great Britain. For England, the results were negative in the pre-recession period possibly indicating the importance of migration to the labour markets of Scotland and Wales. Allowing for imperfect substitution between natives and immigrants, at the wage distribution level of the natives, the results concluded that in the pre-recession period, immigrants had a negative impact on the 10th wage percentile. In the post-recession period, the impact was concluded to be positive at all percentiles and insignificant at the 10th wage percentile. The analysis was also extended by including the regional role of capital adjustment with imperfect substitution between immigrants and natives. The results indicated that immigrants had a negative impact on regional average wages of England from 2009-2016.

Project (M.A.) - Simon Fraser University, 2006. / Theses (Dept. of Economics) / Simon Fraser University. Also issued in digital format and available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University. / Vita. Pub. also as Studies in history, economics and public law, v. 12, no. 2.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universidad de Montevideo, 1892. / Includes bibliographical references ([211]-213).

Akademisk avhandling--Stockholms universitet. / Extra t.p., with thesis statement, inserted. Summary in English. Bibliography: p. 405-419.