Migrant Research about Ireland.

Migrant Research

Your task is to read the facts from this online source and make notes.

                      Remember to use:

• bullet points
• key words
• short phrases
• your own words

Source: Te Ara Encyclopedia

Country:   Ireland/Irish

Focus Area	Information	Resource Link
Facts and figures:	Remember you will use this information to create a graph to show the increase in the migrant population from this country to NZ over time. 1858 census: 4,554 1901 census: 43,524 1951 census: 8,817 1976 census: 9,694 2001 census: 4,095 2006 census: 4,776 1951 census: 6,423 1976 census: 5,622 2001 census: 6,726 2006 census: 6,888 1951 census: 1,932 1976 census: 1,877	Resource 1
Early migration	Early Migration 1858	Resource 2
Reason for migrating to NZ	Because they were living off starvation. Over 1 million people were poor. The potato famine was a massive starvation as well.	Resource 3 Resource 4
Push or pull factor - Why?	Push factor because the Irish people were struggling with in their life.	The same as Resource 4

This is my migrant research about the Irish people. It also shows you a graph as well.