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That is a bit eccentric. People moving from one country to another to take up jobs that people in the migrants' destination job cannot do are no different, really, from people who move from one region of a country to another, or from people who move from one sector of the economy to another...

Has that land been maxxed out? What of agricultural land near cities, or neighbourhoods of low-rise homes that could be densified. Beyond that, you do not need to compensate entirely for demographic decline with immigration. You can simply make a notable contribution slowing down workforce...

Japan is already an urbanized society. I think that you could have a scenario where Japanese population numbers stay stable, at least, on the model if Germany after 1990 thanks to immigration. The problem is how you get that shift to a pro-immigration philosophy.

Ireland is an unusual case, of a country that unlike a lot of other colonized countries in the North Atlantic world (Flanders, Finland, Québec) actually did see a thorough shift to the language of the colonizer. I can only assume that the extreme and sustained levels of violence in Ireland made...

I suppose one way you could diminish the proportion of Anglophone immigrants coming into the United States would be to diminish the rate of natural population growth in the British Isles as a whole. What if England (say) went through the same process of early declines in fertility as France? In...

I would also point to Québec, where upwards of 40% of the total population--including something like a third of Francophones--have some Irish ancestry. http://www.themetropolitain.ca/articles/view/494

If we are talking about pre-modern migration, I am not sure what would take the Jews so far east. The Armenians, the other big diaspora of the Mediterranean basin and its hinterlands, never got much further east than South Asia. The Romani, likewise, migrated from South Asia west towards the...

The thing to remember about Argentina is that even though a plurality--maybe even an outright majority--of the immigrants who came to Argentina in the belle époque came from Italy, they did not speak Italian. At such an early stage in Italy's political unification, the different dialects and...

I very much suspect you will have to weaken Spain somehow, to give Morocco an opening. This moght be achievable through the same POD that would give Morocco greater strength.

Would "Kaapland" denote a country more than "De Kaap"?

Would the Dutch opt for a dominion status? Why not a status as a simple overseas province, or full integration?

If you do manage to get a mostly Muslim Balkans, perhaps especially if this is achieved through conversion of the locals, this neatly undercuts the likelihood of Western support. Why try to create a Christian Greece if the Greeks are mostly Christian? You might still see Western interest in the...

I had imagined more of a natural evolution of the Portuguese empire. If the American territories of said become dominant, unless the empire is going to fracture—always a possibility—you will see a shift.

I would think that creating an independent Circassia in the aftermath of the Crimean War would require a marked escalation of the Anglo-French-Piedmontese war effort. They wanted to hold off Russian advances on the Ottoman Empire, not try to create new allied states out of the Russian Empire's...

The scenario in For Want of A Nail, where there was nothing like the Napoleonic Wars but where Spanish support for a conventional French war did lead to the collapse of the Spanish empire in the Americas, strikes me as valid. Spain at the end of the 18th century was a weak power, one that had...

The Creoles occupied a somewhat different social position in Louisiana from the Métis on the Prairies. The most notable is that the Louisiana Creoles had and maintained much more direct links with France and the wider world than the Métis did on the Prairies. The problems with using the Cajuns...

I do not think we are in disagreement. I would suggest that an alt-US that tried to assimilate Canada would be a very different state from the one we know from our history, one with a much more centralized government and less federalism. I am willing to bet that, on balance, we would be more...

Are the space settlements self-sufficient? One possibility that occurs to me is that, with the space settlements controlling spade above Earth orbit, they have a practical monopoly on the exploitation of space. This gives them a monopoly over military weapons involving extreme energies, say...

Oh sure. I am just saying that counting on the State lf Canada to remain conservative as OTL Lower Canada/Québec was is not something that should be done. Beyond this, if there is not going to be a Loyalist settlement in southern Ontario to leapfrog over the settlement frontier by a generation...

I do think that it is important to note that the whole development of French Canada towards an introverted and conservative ideology centered around the Roman Catholic Church in the 19th century was not inevitable. The 1837 rebellion in Lower Canada, which could have become a war of independence...