I am pleased to report that Oxford historians now have access to Adam Matthew’s Migration to New Worlds. Following a collaboration between Jisc and Adam Matthew this resource is made freely available to all UK academics and students in higher (HE) and further (FE) education institutions from January 2016.
Migration to New Worlds documents the emigration of peoples to the United States, Canada and Australasia during the period 1800 to 1924, although there are documents from the eighteenth century and also later materials.
Mainly focusing on European emigration, the resource includes material on English, Scandinavian, Irish, Italian, Jewish, Polish and Scottish experiences along with a wealth of material covering Chinese and Japanese movement to the United States.
The majority of the collection comprises unique manuscript correspondence, diaries and travel journals, providing eye-witness accounts and experiences of emigrants across the World. It is also rich in visual content.
Topics covered include: motives for emigration; assisted migration schemes; social conditions and organisation in ports of emigration; ships and shipping lines involved in emigration; government legislation for emigration and immigration; settlement, naturalisation and choice of location; maintaining identities.
This collection of primary sources provides an important and multi-faceted resource for students, teachers and researchers from a diverse range of academic disciplines, including migration studies, history, sociology, law, economics and postcolonial studies.
Migration to New Worlds is now available via SOLO and Databases A-Z.
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Related resources on the web:
- Documenting Ireland: Parliament, People and Migration (DIPPAM)
- Immigrant Lives
- Assisted immigration 1848 to 1912 – Datasets | Data | Queensland Government
- Migration Stories
- Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American business biographies form 1720 to present
- Dutch-American immigrant newspapers (Roosevelt Study Center) Immigration: Challenges for New Americans
- Passengers’ lists on FindMyPast and FamilySearch.org
