QUESTIONS 1B
1 B) Study Source B. Why did people immigrate to The Bahamas
during the late 19th and 20th centuries?
[8 marks]
[8 marks]
Source B
As the demand for agricultural labour in the U.S. declined in the postwar era, local employment was rapidly expanding in the booming tourist sector, fueled at first by a swarm of rich European refugees (Segal 1975) For example; between 1949 and 1960 the number of visitors and the value of construction activity increased tenfold (Hughes 1981: 32, 92). By the early 1960s, the Bahamian transition from labour exporter to importer ws well underway as immigrant workers arrived from Haiti and Turks and Caicos to satisfy the demands of the burgeoning tourism and construction industries in New Providence and Grand Bahama and to service the lumber and agro-industries in Abaco and Andros and the salt industry in Inagua.
As the demand for agricultural labour in the U.S. declined in the postwar era, local employment was rapidly expanding in the booming tourist sector, fueled at first by a swarm of rich European refugees (Segal 1975) For example; between 1949 and 1960 the number of visitors and the value of construction activity increased tenfold (Hughes 1981: 32, 92). By the early 1960s, the Bahamian transition from labour exporter to importer ws well underway as immigrant workers arrived from Haiti and Turks and Caicos to satisfy the demands of the burgeoning tourism and construction industries in New Providence and Grand Bahama and to service the lumber and agro-industries in Abaco and Andros and the salt industry in Inagua.
· If you fully answer question 1A on then
u have all the information already for Question 1B.
· This Question is simply asking you to
explain the reasons why people migrated to the Bahamas. The same info that you used as your push and
pull factors can be use here in this question only you are going to write about
it in more detail.
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