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Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Immigration. Correspondence relating...

Catalogue reference: CO 318/265

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Reference
CO 318/265
Date
1872
Description

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Immigration. Correspondence relating to the West Indies from the Foreign Office. Subjects are as follows:

  • British Guiana emigration agency in China;
  • Chinese migration to British Guiana;
  • migrant labour in Danish and French colonies;
  • Chinese migration to Lima;
  • Spanish emigration agency in Canton;
  • Chinese migration;
  • emigration from Britain to Brazil;
  • Indians in Buenos Aires;
  • insecurity of life in Argentine Republic;
  • migration to British Guiana;
  • request from Portugal for information about regulations on free labour in British colonies;
  • indentured migration;
  • proposed British emigration agency at Canton or Swatow;
  • 'insecurity of the province of Rosario owing to raids of Pampa Indians';
  • prospects of emigration to Paraguay;
  • regulations in British colonies respecting treatment of immigrants;
  • Netherlands regulations on migration to Surinam;
  • projected immigration of Chinese into Cuba;
  • immigrants into Brazil.

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The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Subjects
Topics
International
Labour
Asia
Migration
Caribbean
Europe and Russia
Americas
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C998645/

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