jje1000
Senior Member
The majority of immigration occurring in the immediate post WW2 period was still largely within their respective continents, as various countries took advantage of the circumstances to remove perceived enemies (i.e. Japanese/Germans being purged from their former territories)- or movements of people displaced by the war within countries. Even in places like India/Pakistan, it was largely a movement of similar peoples, but of different religions- in the case of Israel- dissimilar peoples, but a common unifying mythos and religion. The large majority of these countries (Soviet-exempted) still remained largely ethnically homogeneous even past this period.
In the US and Canada, immigration was still largely from these European countries- the sort of modern immigration today did not start to emerge until full-scale decolonization began- and in the US, with the signing of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965. Again- degrees of separation- immigration in the West today takes in people from any part of the world as long as they satisfy the economic requirements- the large-scale settlement of culturally disparate people is nearly unprecedented in human history- and in Europe for the last few years- unprecedented in its speed.
