Chapter 1 - Exercise 1

Some of the first lines of the manual say that “the idea that there are ethnic and cultural “pure” countries or nations is one of the several myths used to support a particular view of the present, but it lacks any historical confirmations”. Select the argumentations (more than one) here below from which you think the statement above has been taken.
1. European peoples speak many different languages
2. All the European countries have a double migratory history of arrival and departure, so we are “mixed” peoples
3. The conflicts among the European States have often changed the national borders so entire populations were included or expelled
4. The religious differences do not agree with the borders of the States
5. All of us are sons of the same God
6. A first wave of economic migration dates back to a the period between the world wars, that is a long time
Some of the first lines of the manual say that “the idea that there are ethnic and cultural “pure” countries or nations is one of the several myths used to support a particular view of the present, but it lacks any historical confirmations”.

Please go to the Transnational report (Click here) (pag.1) and underline the assertions useful to confirm (or not confirm) the statement above.

Then select the phrase that describe what you found.
1. I have found some assertions that are confirming the statement and some assertions that are NOT ai soggetti dislessici
2. I have found assertions that are confirming the statement
3. I have found assertions NOT confirming the statement
4. I have not found any assertions related to the Topic
Some of the first lines of the manual say that “the idea that there are ethnic and cultural “pure” countries or nations is one of the several myths used to support a particular view of the present, but it lacks any historical confirmations”.

Please read the national report of your country (Click here) and check if it does agree or not with the statement above.

Then select the phrase that describe what you found.
1. The Report agrees with the statement
2. The Report does not agree with the statement
3. The Report partly agrees and partly not agrees with the statement
The manual traces two turning points in the History of Migration in Europe: the first one is the second post war (dealt in paragraph b); the second is the speed up given to the European Union by the events after 1989 (paragraph c).

With reference to the first turning point we can say: Soon after the war and in the Fifties.... (Select the correct statements. Pay attention there are more than one that are correct):
1. The peoples’ migration turned to the East of Europe.
2. The migration inside Europe was mostly caused by the irreversible crisis of the rural world
3. Until the end of Sixties, there was an increase of the intra-European migratory movements
4. In Great Britain and in France the movements from the ex colonies decreased
5. There was no political migration
The manual traces two turning points in the History of Migration in Europe: the first one is the second post war (dealt in paragraph b); the second is the speed up given to the European Union by the events after 1989 (paragraph c).

With reference to the first turning point we can say: During the first oil crisis (1973)...... (Select the correct statements. Pay attention there are more than one that are correct):
1. The crisis leads the European countries to take restrictive measures against workforces coming from Africa and Asia
2. The limitations to legally access Europe drove down the illegal immigration
3. New European Institutions were formed to make concrete the free circulation of European people
4. No difference of status was introduced between the migrants from a country member of the E.U. and the ones from a non E.U. country.
The manual traces two turning points in the History of Migration in Europe: the first one is the second post war (dealt in paragraph b); the second is the speed up given to the European Union by the events after 1989 (paragraph c).

With reference to the second turning point after 1989 we can say: Select the correct phrases (there are more than one that are correct).
1. A new wave of political migration directs from Eastern to Western Europe
2. There is a progressive liberalization of the European job market
3. Growing migratory waves of peoples come from Asia and Africa
4. The economic globalization is producing in Europe a better organization of welfare policies
5. The economic globalization is producing in Europe a great development of European traditional industry
6. The economic globalization is producing in Europe less protection of workers’ rights and power
7. The Union enlargement has gone with a progressive opening of the labour market to the citizen from new member countries
8. Nothing was decided by European Institutions about immigration and Asylum
According to the manual, “it is important not to limit the consideration about Europe only to our times. The search of its roots is the object of a heated historiography and political debate”.

Please list in two different columns the political reasons of this melting of peoples and the economical ones. You can find the information in the manual, in the transnational report and in the national ones.

Then Select among the phrases below the one that better describes the result of your research.
1. I have listed both political and economical reasons for melting of people
2. I have listed only political reasons for melting of people as I could not identify economical reasons
3. I have listed only economical reasons for melting of people as I could not identify political reasons
4. I could not list neither political nor economical reasons for melting of people
The manual uses the word “foreigner”, also with reference to the experience to be “foreigner in one’s own country”. Which historical reasons are quoted to explain this condition ? You can find the information in the manual, in the transnational report and in the national ones.

After you have completed your research choose the phrase below that better describes your results.
1. I have found different historical reasons
2. I have found one historical reason
3. I could not find any historical reason