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The colony that rose from the sea: The Norwegians in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, 1850-1910

After examining population increases in Norway's southern maritime districts that resulted from internal migration, the study traces the heavy emigration from these areas to Red Hook. A long-term depression in Norwegian shipping, sailors' familiarity with the port of New York, and employment opportunities at Red Hook's harbor facilities resulted in a special kind of chain migration. Seamen who frequented the area settled down, helped family members emigrate, and encouraged other maritime workers to follow their example.

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  • "After examining population increases in Norway's southern maritime districts that resulted from internal migration, the study traces the heavy emigration from these areas to Red Hook. A long-term depression in Norwegian shipping, sailors' familiarity with the port of New York, and employment opportunities at Red Hook's harbor facilities resulted in a special kind of chain migration. Seamen who frequented the area settled down, helped family members emigrate, and encouraged other maritime workers to follow their example."@en
  • "This study documents an unusual aspect of American immigration and ethnic history: an urban Norwegian colony that developed largely because of the presence of Norway's merchant fleet in the Port of New York and the concealed or 'irregular' immigration of seamen. The combination of the harbor's growing importance on international trade routes and the rapid expansion of Norway's shipping after 1850 brought thousands of Norse sailors to the bulk cargo docks along the Red Hook Peninsula each year between the mid-1860s and 1910. Significant numbers of these left their ships--legally or illegally (over 5,000 jumped ship in the 1870s)--and found berths on American vessels, jobs in the harbor, or work on land. The transient majority stayed with Norway's fleet and on returning home made the port and Brooklyn well known in the country's shipping districts. The study discusses how both groups of seamen spurred the development and shaped the community life of Red Hook's Norwegian colony."@en
  • "Subsequent chapters complete the presentation of the colony's background through analyses of sailors' unoffical immigration, Manhattan's Norse settlement, and Brooklyn's urban expansion. The rest of the dissertation discusses the formative role mariners played in the colony's residential, occupational, and associational life. Branches or replicas of old-country institutions established primarily to serve itinerant seamen made the Red Hook settlement more a haven for marine transients than an immigrant enclave until around 1890. During the next two decades, heavy immigration and the settlers' cooperation resulted in decisive immigrant influence at these 'transplanted' institutions and a rich flowering of ethnic organizations that illustrated the community's regional and maritime origins."@en

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  • "Dissertations, Academic"@en
  • "History"@en

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  • "The colony that rose from the sea: The Norwegians in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, 1850-1910"@en
  • "The colony that rose form the sea the Norwegians in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, 1850-1910"
  • "The colony that rose from the sea the Norwegians in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, 1850-1910"@en
  • "The colony that rose from the sea : the Norwegians in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, 1850-1910"@en

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