when did immigration start?

Answer 1

Our evolutionary ancestors have been immigrating for hundreds of millions of years, ever since the first amphibians crawled up onto land. Read the National Geographic article, "New Fossil: Link Between Fish and Land Animals?":

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/07/0703_020703_TVtetrapod.html

Answer 2

Mainly 1954 and then again in 1963. It has accelerated ever since, particularly under this Government. Prior to this, the Normans in the eleventh century were the last major influx of foreign people. HOWEVER, THAT WAS AN INVASION AND NOT APPROVED IMMIGRATION. That is something the pro immigration lefties seem to forget when they try to describe Britain as a country of immigrants. Prior to 1954, the British population had been consolidated for centuries, and had become Britain as we then new it.

Answer 3

To where. The first immigrants were our ancestors moving from area to area, as a nomadic life. Other immigrants followed going from country to country, not always asking for permission to enter, the Mongols, the Romans, the Vandals, the Germans etc.

Although migration is as old as humans, only the formation of governments in different countries and the requirement to obtain permission to live in another country, have we had controlled immigration, this goes back at least 400 years ago, maybe more.

Answer 4

Technically, immigration started when man first migrated out of the African terrian (as we know it today) almost one hundred thousand years ago. The first immigration to the Americas happened when one could walk across the barain straight, about 30 to 50 thousand years ago. And recorded human history only goes back about 7 thousand years so imagine what happened before that.

Answer 5

There have always been some form of immigration since the beginning of mankind.
Illegal Imigration in America began with the proliferation of migrant farm work, I believe around the time of the Depression.
Laws have been passed to control the flow but have not been enforced because Politicians have been payed off under the table by unscrupulous Produce Establishments.

Answer 6

I think it all started about 40 to 60 million years ago. When the first monkey stood up in Africa and from that point we just started migrating every where we could . We have not stopped yet. Look in the sky there is normally 3 people in space at all times.. Soon the moon will have a full tim base and at some point people will live their whole life there.. Same for mars..

Answer 7

Typical Americans, always thinking everything began with them. Immigration pre-dates historical record to the days of Australopithecus man.
PS America was discovered in in 1000 AD when Leif ericson sailed the ocean blue.

Answer 8

The history books will someday probably go back to the australopithecines, but the kind that you're talking about -- more recent, by -- started during the Pleistocene era, when Mongoloid homo sapiens crossed the Bering Land Bridge and diverged from their native race into the people you know as the Native Americans.

Answer 9

It never started it has always been apart of the human race, it's just ever since the scum that is the human race decided to claim parts of the planet as it's own that we called it immigration.

Answer 10

There has been immigration since a group of nomads, hundreds of thousands of years ago, decided to settle somewhere and some time later another group of nomads decided to join them.