This document discusses various immigration schemes in the Caribbean post-emancipation. It describes the push and pull factors that led to immigration from places like Madeira to the Caribbean. The schemes aimed to address labor shortages faced by planters after emancipation. The document outlines the provisions of immigration contracts, including requirements for indentured immigrants to work for 3-5 years and conditions they faced like low wages. It provides details on the Madeiran immigration scheme, challenges they faced including discrimination, and their eventual economic success.

2.  KEY TERMS
 MIGRATION
 PUSH/PULL FACTORS
 SETTLEMENT
 CULTURE

3.  THE INTRODUCTION OF MIGRATION AS A
SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF LABOUR.
 A THOROUGH EXAMINATION OF ALL THE
SCHEMES VIZ. CHINESE,MADEIRANS,
AFRICANS,ASIAN.
 HOW THESE SCHEMES WERE CONDUCTED
AND PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE
SCHEMES

4.  THE EFFECT OF IMMIGRATION ON THE SUGAR
INDUSTRY
 SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC CHANGES
 WHICH WERE AFFECTED THROUGH
IMMIGRATION.
 THE EMERGENCE OF FREE VILLAGES AND THE
CONDITIONS WHICH WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR
ITS GROWTH.

5.  IMMIGRATION SCHEMES WERE TRIEDTO EASE
THE PROBLEM OF LABOUR WHICH THE
PLANTERS IN HIGH DENSITY ISLANDS FACED
IN THE POST EMANCIPATION EARA.
 PUSH AND PULL FACTORS
 THE MADEIRANS
 MADEIRANS WERE ATTRACTED TO THE
BRITISH CARIBBEAN BY THE LURE OF HIGH
WAGES.

6.  The immigrants were required to sign a
contract. The provisions of the 1854
Immigration Ordinance (Trinidad) give us a
good idea of the various
 immigration schemes that were operated
throughout the Caribbean. Most of the other
territories used Trinidad and or British
Guiana's Ordinances as
 models.

7.  1The immigrants were required to work for a
period of three to five years.
 2. Jail terms were imprisoned for infringement of
any aspects of the Immigration Law.
 3. Time spent in jail to be added unto the period
of indenture
 4. Tickets of leave to be issued to immigrants to
be off the estate during working hours.
 5. They were required to work seven hours a day,
six days per week for one shilling per day.
 6. Employers had to provide housing and medical
care

9.  MADEIRA IS A SMALL PORTUGUESE ISLAND IN
THE ATLANTIC, OFF MORROCCO. LOW WAGES
AND POOR WORKING CONDITIONS IN
MADERIA FORCED MIGRANTS TO SEEK
EMPLOYMENT OPPURTUNITIES ELSEWHERE.
 THE SCHEME TO IMPORT MIGRANTS FROM
MADERIA BEGAN IN 1835. IT SUSPENDED
DURING 1839 AND 1841., WHILE THE BRITISH
GOVERNMENT EXAMINED THE SCHEME.
BRITISH GUIANA ATTRACTED THE VAST
MAJORITY OF PORTUGUESE MIGRANTS 4,296,
HOWEVER 12.5 PERCENT DIED FROM MALARIA
 AND YELLOW FEVER.

10.  PORTUGUESE IIMIGRANTS WERE AMONG THE
FIRST INDENTURED WORKERS BROUGHT TO
GUYANA. PORTUUESE INDENTURED
IMMIGRATION BEGAN IN 1835 AND ENDED IN
1882, WITH MOST OF THE IMMIGRANTS
HAVING ARRIVED BY THE 1860S. MOST OF
THE PORTUGUESE CAME FROM THE NORTH
ATLANTIC ISLANDS OF MADERIA.

11.  ECONOMICALLY SUCESSFUL IN GUYANA, THE
PORTUGUESE NONETHELESS EXPERIENCED
DISCRIMNINATION. EVENTHOUGH OF
EUROPEAN ORIGIN , THEY WERE TREATED AS
SOCIALLY INFERIOR BY THE BRITISH
PLANTATION OWNERS AND OFFICIALS
BECAUSE OF THEIR INDENTURED PAST AND
ROMAN CATHOLIC RELGION.

12.  DESPITE DISCRIMINATION , BY THE END OF
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY THE PORTUGUESE
WERE FIRMLY ESTABLISHED AS AN
IMPORTANT PART OF GUYANAS MIDDLE
CLASS AND COMMERCIAL SECTOR.

13.  THE PORTUGUSESE WERE SAID TO BE
INDUSTRIOUS TO A FAULT. THEY WERE LURED
TO THE COLONIES BY WAGES MUCH GRAETER
THAN THOSE IN THEIR HOME LAND.
 MADERIANS TOILED LABOROUSLY ONB THE
ESTATE, TAXING THEIR BODIES BEYOND
ENDURANCE.

14.  THEY DEPRIVED THEMSELVES OF ADEQUATE
FOOD AND CLOTHING IN ORDER TO LAY
AWAY SAVINGS. THEY PAID LITTLE HEED TO
CLEANLINESS, AND INSPITE OF THE
PERSISTENT WARNINGS OF PLANTERS, THEY
IGNORED THE SYMPTOMS OF DESEASE UNTIL
THEY WERE BEYOND HELP.
 AFTER ATIME PLANTERS WERE RELUCTANT TO
EMPLOY THESE HEADSTONG IMMIGRANTS IN
ARDUOUS CANE WORK. THEY SIMPLY DIED
TOO EASILY .

15.  LIGHTER TASKS,GARDENING, WOOD-CUTTING
AND DOMESTIC SERVICE WERE CONSIDERED
IN THEIR CASE THE MOST SUITABLE FORMS
OF EMPLOYMENT.

16.  TOPIC: CARIBBEAN ECONOMY AND SLAVERY.
 GRADE: FIFTH FORM
 DATE: SEPTEMBER 06,2013

17.  What were the reasons for the change from
tobacco to sugar and logwood to mahogany?
 What were the reasons for the enslavement of
Africans in the Caribbean?
 Describe the transatlantic Trade in Africans.
 Describe the ways in which African labour
was used in areas other than sugar
production.
 Describe the organisation of a typical sugar
plantation

18.  Describe the manufacturing process on a
typical sugar plantation;
 Describe the manufacturing process on a
typical sugar plantation before 1838.
 Identify the markets for the products above,
before 1850.
 Describe African cultural forms in the
Caribbean up to 1838.
 Describe the social relations in slave society.

19. HEY GENTLE MEN
TAKE ALL YOUR S.B.A
FIRST DRAFT ON
MONDAY 09 OF
SEPTEMBER.