If Mexico was more popular than OTL for immigrants, how would Euro-immigration trends change?

Bonus: Besides Spaniards, what would be the biggest immigrant group to Mexico?

  • Germans/Austrians

    Votes: 5 16.7%
  • Italians

    Votes: 16 53.3%
  • Portuguese

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Poles

    Votes: 1 3.3%
  • Russians

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Greeks

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Chinese

    Votes: 2 6.7%
  • Japanese

    Votes: 1 3.3%
  • Filipinos

    Votes: 2 6.7%
  • Cubans

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other(explain)

    Votes: 1 3.3%
  • Armenians

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Arabs(including Lebanese, Palestinians,etc)

    Votes: 2 6.7%
  • Turks

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Romani(gypsies)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    30
Like lots of Italians and Germans went to Brazil and Argentina, but would that change if Mexico was more prosperous and stable for immigrants to go there. Since the country would be cheaper and closer for travel, I would think that people would be more likely to travel there, if it was a highly viable option. Also, in general how would immigration to the Americas change?
 
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Not by much considering Mexico in the 1800's was a lot more Catholic friendly than America. So Italians,Irish,Hungarians,Bavarian Germans and Poles might feel more inclined to migrate there. However the main reason why Mexico did not receive the immigration that America did was because Mexico was more unstable,prone to revolutions and banditry. So they also need better advertising and Public Relations to put a positive spin on their image.
 
Not by much considering Mexico in the 1800's was a lot more Catholic friendly than America. So Italians,Irish,Hungarians,Bavarian Germans and Poles might feel more inclined to migrate there. However the main reason why Mexico did not receive the immigration that America did was because Mexico was more unstable,prone to revolutions and banditry. So they also need better advertising and Public Relations to put a positive spin on their image.
So,if they had a better image a much less prone to the above, would the immigrants that went to Brazil and Argentina , instead go to Mexico, at least some of them. And if they do what cultural effects would occur on all three countries?
 
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Also I will leave this here. Let the Mexican revolution be averted in this world along with any instability that comes after 1848. Any immigration restrictions that come later in the 20th century are also averted.
 
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WHY is it more popular with immigrants? Where are they going? To farm? (Where's the unused farmland?) to cities (what jobs are available, which immigrants can supply those jobs, where is the food coming from to feed all those additional mouths, etc.?)

Canada, the US, Australia, Argentina, and I guess Brazil, had lots of available land, lots of food to feed growing cities, and decent transportation to get food to either the cities or export overseas.

Did Mexico have any of this?
 
Like lots of Italians and Germans went to Brazil and Argentina, but would that change if Mexico was more prosperous and stable for immigrants to go there. Since the country would be cheaper and closer for travel, I would think that people would be more likely to travel there, if it was a highly viable option. Also, in general how would immigration to the Americas change?

The Irishmen should be included, too for they are an important immigration group in the 19th century.
 
Sigh.

WHY is it more popular with immigrants? Where are they going? To farm? (Where's the unused farmland?) to cities (what jobs are available, which immigrants can supply those jobs, where is the food coming from to feed all those additional mouths, etc.?)

Canada, the US, Australia, Argentina, and I guess Brazil, had lots of available land, lots of food to feed growing cities, and decent transportation to get food to either the cities or export overseas.

Did Mexico have any of this?
Because, it's cheaper to travel to, then going all the way down to South America. In an ATL, where Mexico is stable for a longer amount of time, it can grow in economy. I don't know much about Mexican farmland, but I know that the urban areas can be big, just look at Mexico city, it's among the ranks of NYC in population and size, last time I checked. So, presumably the cities to work on industry. Food wise, I don't see the problem. Japan and Great Britain are massive food importers, yet they rank among the top 5 economies. So, I don't see why that's a concern.
 
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WHY is it more popular with immigrants? Where are they going? To farm? (Where's the unused farmland?) to cities (what jobs are available, which immigrants can supply those jobs, where is the food coming from to feed all those additional mouths, etc.?)

Canada, the US, Australia, Argentina, and I guess Brazil, had lots of available land, lots of food to feed growing cities, and decent transportation to get food to either the cities or export overseas.

Did Mexico have any of this?

If Mexico avoids a lot of their earlier instability, it's not inconceivable that they retain some if not all of the territory they lost to the US in OTL, which opens up a lot more land to be settled. Granted, some of it isn't particularly suitable for farming (much and more of it is desert, after all), but especially in California and the northwest you'd see some attractive prospects for immigrants.

Besides that, any destination away from Europe is going to be popular for a lot of European immigrants; the whole reason they leave is in the pursuit of a 'better life' in a 'land of opportunity'. The US isn't the only country in the world where such things are possible (and as has been pointed out, immigrants travelled to Brazil, Argentina, and of course Canada, South Africa, and Australasia).

A more stable Mexico might be seen as a suitable location for anyone, regardless of reasons.
 
The richer they are, the more Chinese that will go there :p especially after the Chinese Exclusion Act

Seriously. One of the major issues the US Border Patrol and predecessor groups faced was Chinese immigration from Mexico. If Mexico can be a bit more functional, and the US Border Patrol tougher (you could cross the border as a Chinese by saying a few words in Spanish, evidently), you could see far more Chinese in Mexico. The Lebanese were also a noteworthy group--find a way to divert them there than Colombia. The famous billonaire Carlos Slim is Lebanese, for instance, and there were many more, since the US didn't want the Lebanese in the early 20th century as they didn't want plenty of other ethnic groups.

Also avoid some anti-Chinese campaigns in Mexico in the 1920s, although those were far less than in the US or Canada in that era. The Chinese and other Asians could be like what the Asians are in Peru nowadays, if not more. Since many Chinese in the 1930s had quite a dislike for America's policies toward their them, maybe they could even emigrate to Mexico. The issue is that the center of Chinese immigration (Baja California--including Mexicali, which was a center of Chinese culture in Mexico--Sonora, etc.) was also where the locals had quite a dislike for the Chinese, hence anti-Chinese campaigns like occurred in Sonora. Might be avoidable.
 
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