Oscar Handlin Summary

In the document Oscar Handlin, Immigration Portrayed As an Experience of Uprootedness, America now has many immigrants from other countries, but tracing back to the movement of immigrants, they were mostly based on peasant society that has started in Europe. Oscar Handlin gave us a point of view of that the peasants were the basis of the European economy, many people had left their homes in order to survive or tried to find a better place to stay. According to the article, village was the start and a whole for every person back in that century, and family was an economic unit. Women and men had their own work to do to make their village continued to operate, and of course, people have to live with each other that their lives were all connected …show more content…
“Emigration was the end of peasant life in Europe; it was also the beginning of life in America.” (Oscar Handlin, page 5) It was really hard not only for a person to leave one’s hometown to an unfamiliar world, but also has to adapt to the new environment and new languages or