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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, South Asian doctors began to settle in Ireland. Ireland has long had a shortage of doctors and nurses, partially due to the emigration of indigenous doctors, [15] and therefore hires many foreign medical staff. [16] Most of the foreign medical staff come from India and Pakistan.
Ontario has over 2 million people of Irish descent, who in greater numbers arrived in the 1820s and the decades that followed to work on colonial infrastructure and to settle land tracts in Upper Canada, the result today is a countryside speckled with the place names of Ireland. Ontario received a large number of those who landed in Quebec ...
In contrast, the indigenous groups of Old Europe had neither a warrior class nor horses. [55] [note 2] Indo-European languages probably spread through language shifts. [56] [57] Small groups can change a larger cultural area, [58] [1] and elite male dominance by small groups may have led to a language shift in northern India. [59] [60] [61]
Rescued male migrants are brought to southern Italian ports, 28 June 2015. Immigration to Europe has a long history, but increased substantially after World War II. Western European countries, especially, saw high growth in immigration post 1945, and many European nations today (particularly those of the EU-15) have sizeable immigrant populations, both of European and non-European origin.
Population exchange is the transfer of two populations in opposite directions at about the same time. In theory at least, the exchange is non-forcible, but the reality of the effects of these exchanges has always been unequal, and at least one half of the so-called "exchange" has usually been forced by the stronger or richer participant.
Some estimates Ireland give the population at 1,700 in 2004, [2] rising to between 2,500 and 3,000 in 2005. [1] The Romani people first migrated from northwestern India between 500 and 600 AD. [3] They first arrived in Europe via Greece and Bulgaria around the 13th century and the majority of Romani people remained in Southeastern Europe.
From 1815 to 1932, 65 million people left Europe (with many returning home), primarily to areas of European settlement in North and South America, [3] in addition to South Africa, Australia, [4] New Zealand, and Siberia. [5] These populations also multiplied rapidly in their new habitat; much more so than the populations of Africa and Asia.
During the 19th century, a number of missionaries and educationists were involved in setting-up educational, healthcare and other institutions in India. [1] Later in the 19th century, a number of philosophers and Catholic Irish nationalists travelled to India, including the theosophist Annie Besant .