Fascinating how, when it suits their current political point, someone would see colonisation and mass migration as equivalent terms
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@hbdchick indeed, spent a while thinking about the difference between "political" colonisation and settlement … really different processes -
@declamare yeah. brits in india, for instance - with just a small pop ruling from the top - can't have left much of a genetic mark... -
@hbdchick I read that with the plantations the English couldn't actually be persuaded to settle en masse though obviously the Scots did move -
@hbdchick though apparently there was significant English settlement to Eastern Ireland in the earlier Middle Ages. Does this ring true? -
@declamare i think there were a lot of anglo women settling in ireland in the 18th and 19th C's, too. i mean as many as the men. -
@hbdchick what was the driver of this migration? I thought (wrongly) that Ireland had almost exclusively experienced outward migration. -
@hbdchick (Scots Irish plus few Vikings excepted)
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@declamare ...america, for instance. but perhaps that was more of an historical thing? lots of chain migration today where women move, too. -
@hbdchick yeah, I'm talking about pre 19th century movements here
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