WI : White Immigrant Laborers to Non-white country

How could we create this kind of situation ?
Simpel. Create a bad economic situation in Europe and a good economic situation in a non-white country. If the POD is early enough, I could easily see Europeans going to China or possibly India(n nations).

For a later POD you could maybe use communism to ruin the European economy, while Asia, North Africa and Latin America* (assuming you see North Africa and Latin america as non- white) do better, thus after the collapse of Communism in Europe, many Europeans move to those countries.

* I would include Africa, but I think most African countries need an earlier POD than a late 19th century-early 20th century POD to become rich and stable enough to attract European Immigrants. To be fair, I know little of African history, so I could easily be wrong.
 
Have a regular but massive white settlement in first place. When that's achieved, you'll need to maintain an at least partially comparable way of life in the country for the european population, and therefore need of similar economical infrastructures than in metropole eventually incitating for white laborers immigrating.
 

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I guess it depends entirely on what you classify as "white". A lot of people in Europe are darker than people in East Asia, especially Japan.
 
Ah, but were they laborers, or were they in high-tech, high-demand, high-education fields?

I had to check "laborer" at dictionary.com now.

1. a person engaged in work that requires bodily strength rather than skill or training: a laborer in the field.
2. any worker.

I used definition #2 but I grant that the OP probably meant definition #1. Never mind my answer, then. Move along ;)
 
Angola's independence party is less incompetent/Communist, actually manages to keep most of its skilled labor within the country. Carnation Revolution goes bad, and although Portugal doesn't go Communist, there is a short civil war and a huge recession.

Over the years, as Angola develops with American investment, Portuguese begin moving to Angola. White Mozambicans also flee to Angola as that country goes to hell (and possibly the same with Bissau). Portuguese emigration temporarily stops once their economy improves.

In the mid-2000s, the world has an alt-Great Recession. Angola has developed its material resources to such a degree that their economy weathers it better than Europe. Spaniards, Portuguese and Italians all move to Angola, which has become the biggest economy in sub-Saharan Africa.

Other possibilities include people moving to South Africa. Brazil could also count, insofar as it is very multiracial.
 
Venezuela attracted hundreds of thousands of European immigrants between 1945-1980, and it is a non-white majority country.

Also, the post-independence white population of Ivory Coast and Gabon more than doubled during the 1970s due to the economic growth in both countries.

Finally, Portuguese emigration to Angola and Mozambique has risen in the past few years. Angola has become the leading destination for Portuguese emigrants. There is a link below on the phenomenon.

http://www.dw.de/cresce-a-emigra%C3%A7%C3%A3o-portuguesa-para-angola-e-mo%C3%A7ambique/a-17495606
 
I should have typed this sentence in the OP : "How do we get a darker-skinned country to invite white
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So basically like Mexicans in the US, except racially reversed.

At first I thought a successful Ottoman economy will do by magneting Russian and Italian laborers but a strong Ottoman Empire will likely be regarded as white.
 
While not "en mass" as elsewhere, a significant amount of Irish people did immigrant to South America, particularly Argentina. In fact one of those said Immigrant, William "Gulliermo" Browne of Mayo, Ireland, become one of the "founding fathers of Argentina", as Admiral of the Argentina Navy who repeatedly smashed the Spanish.

According to wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Argentine, 1,000,000 Argentinians today are descended from the Irish.
 
Do you mean prior to the 20th century or after?

IOTL there has been a situation where White workers (of various kinds) have migrated to non-White countries, ranging from Japan, South Korea, China and India in Asia to Mozambique, Angola (by which I mean recent immigrants), Kenya and a variety of other countries in Africa.
 
I mean Mexican. That is, the white immigrants of the said country must be of comparable average wealth and education, reflected on the types of jobs they typically engage in and the stereotypes attached to them.

Also, in the said non-white country, the non-whites rule.
 
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How about an exact reversal of OTL's US-Mexico relationship ? That requires overthrowing the Criollos, or at least enfranchising the Meztizos and Indios through a homegrown progressive movement. Being a society as it is, I don't think Mexico can avoid Benito Juarez and Zapata even if Texas and California are still retained and US too screwed to pose a threat. In fact progressivism should get easier path that way. It'll be fun to see Mexican Indio and Meztizo working class decry white migration from Europe and United States as a threat towards their jobs and living standard. :D
 
I mean Mexican. That is, the white immigrants of the said country must be of comparable average wealth and education, reflected on the types of jobs they typically engage in and the stereotypes attached to them.

The thing is, even in the West there is no universal education or wealth level, I mean yes it can be more extreme going to developing countries, but yeah.

AFAIK the Portuguese who've recently been moving to Angola and Mozambique are in the Middle-Class spectrum or the higher part of the Lower class, basically people going there because they figure they have more of a chance of getting a job there than in Portugal.


Also, in the said non-white country, the non-whites rule.

That is pretty much the case in all the modern OTL situations.
 
Russian Tsarist era refugees kicked about all over, China included. Shanghai apparently had a lot. I bet some of them had little else to offer but labouring
 
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