THE PROBLEMS OF MIGRATION DURING THE PERIOD OF URBANIZATION IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND
Abstract
The problems of migration during the period of urbanization in the first half of the XIX century in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland are considered in the context of its economic and demographic transformations. The migration was determined new socioeconomic, sanitary and national problems of the towns, and became the factor of Great Britain social policy rise. Thus, the social problems growth appeared to be the migration consequence in the urbanization period of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Migration, industrial revolution, urbanization, formation of United Kingdom, peculiarities of economic and religious development of Ireland raised a question in the government about tax assessment alteration and system of parish assistance. Poverty of rural districts, growth of the cities in the north of England conditioned rural population outflow (south of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales), necessity of parish assistance system alteration.
Keywords
migration,
urbanization,
Great Britain,
Ireland,
pauperism,
Napoleonic wars,
United Kingdom,
social policy
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Sklyarova E.K. THE PROBLEMS OF MIGRATION DURING THE PERIOD OF URBANIZATION IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Science Almanac of Black Sea Region Countries. 2016;(1):13-19.
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