The new immigration was actually a gradual deepening reach into remoter European lands

Evidence

Although the differences between “old” and “new” immigrants were much less sharp and the shift occurred much less abruptly than twentieth century nativists have taught us to believe, those abstractions do summarize a significant transition. In the late nineteenth century the impulse to emigrate reached progressively deeper into Europe, uprooting more and more remote peoples. The Slavic and Italian influx to Pennsylvania began in the seventies, and by 1880 the Great Lakes region also had substantial clusters of Poles, while New York’s Lower East Side contained crowded districts of Italians and Russo-Polish Jews.”* That year saw a sudden jump in immigration from Italy and Hungary; in the next, pogroms hurried a mass exodus of Jews from the Russian Empire. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 386

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates the reader’s general interest in how historical narratives tidy spatial-temporal processes; parallels any phenomenon where a gradual shift is later narrated as an abrupt rupture. — connects to: Major migrations follow prior colonial, military, or trade links between countries — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3837; The old-versus-new immigrant divide was more gradual and less sharp than later nativists claimed — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 386; Postwar Western Europe shifted from emigration to mass destination of immigration. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 41

Broader Connections

• Major migrations follow prior colonial, military, or trade links between countries #expands (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3837