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The Irish, who were called by the Romans Scotti but called themselves Gaels, had raided and settled along the West Coast of Roman Britain, and numbers of them were allowed to settle within the province, where the Roman Army recruited many Irish into auxiliary units that were dispatched to the German frontier.
By 1908, this figure had declined to 17.4%, with the majority of the population being descendants of immigrants who had settled in earlier decades. [22] Similarly, in Argentina, it is estimated that by 1914, 30% of the population was of foreign origin. [23] [24] Emigration was part of an economic strategy.
Emigration from the United States is the process where citizens and nationals from the United States move to live in countries other than the US, creating an American Diaspora (Overseas Americans). The process is the reverse of the immigration to the United States .
European emigration is the successive emigration waves from the European continent to other continents. The origins of the various European diasporas [1] can be traced to the people who left the European nation states or stateless ethnic communities on the European continent.
Early South Asian presence in Ireland can be traced back to the role played by the East India Company in the eighteenth century. [5] White Irish men working for the East India Company often returned to Ireland with domestic servants and lascars from India, many of whom found themselves in a state of vagrancy, particularly in port towns like Cork.
Pennsylvania was settled by Quakers from England and Wales, followed by Ulster Scots (Northern Ireland) on the frontier and numerous German Protestant sects, including the German Palatines. The earlier colony of New Sweden had small settlements on the lower Delaware River, with immigrants of Swedes and Finns. Those colonies were absorbed by ...
A 1997 American film, Traveller, starring Bill Paxton and Mark Wahlberg, also explored the Travellers in America. In his 1993 documentary Rules of the Road German filmmaker Oliver Herbrich portrayed the Travellers in Ireland and the UK as a nomadic ethnic group forced to adapt to a settled lifestyle. [134]
Apart from Norse contact and settlement, whether transoceanic travel occurred during the historic period, resulting in pre-Columbian contact between the settled American peoples and voyagers from other continents, is vigorously debated. Only a few cases of pre-Columbian contact are widely accepted by mainstream scientists and scholars.