Settler

A (1850) depiction of the first medieval settlers arriving inIceland

Asettlerbu a person when done migrate enter area and establish a permanent residence for there.

A settler when migrate enter area where nobody di reside before or area where people sparsely di reside fit di described as apioneer.

Settlers generally di thought of as people when travel to discover new land. Many times for history, it no di like that. Most of the time for history, settlers bu people when travel to a land when already belong to someone else, force them out, and claim the land as them own.

Settlers generally bu from sedentary culture, as opposed to nomadic peoples when fit change settlements seasonally, within traditional territories. Settlement sometimes di rely on dispossession of already established populations within the contested area, and fit bu a very violent process.Sometimes settlers di backed by governments or large countries. Settlement fit prevent native people from continuing their work.

Historical usage

Chilean settlers for the Baker River, Patagonia, 1935.

Person fit witness how settlers most often occupy land when previously bu residences to long-established peoples, when them designate as Indigenous (also called "natives", "Aborigines" or, for the Americas, "Indians" ).

The process by which Indigenous territories di settled by foreign peoples busettler colonialism.It rely upon a process of often violent dispossession.

In figurative usage, a "person when ga first or do something first" refer to a settler; a person when done migrate enter a less occupied area and establish permanent residence there, often tocolonizethe area; as first recorded in English in 1605.

For this usage, pioneers usually bu among the first to reach an area, whereas settlers fit arrive after the first settlement and join others in the process ofhuman settlement.Templet:Fix/categoryThis correlates with the work of military pioneers when di tasked with construction of camps before the main body of troops ga arrive at the designated campsite.

A family of Russian settlers in theCaucasusregion, circa 1910

ForImperial Russia,the government invite Russians or foreign nationals to settle in for lands when di sparsely populated.Them been call these settlers "colonists".

Anthropological usage

Anthropologists record tribal displacement of native settlers who drive another tribe from the lands when belong to their ancestors, such as the settlement of lands in the area when them now di callCarmel-by-the-Sea,California where Ohlone peoples settle in areas previously when theEsselentribe been di reside(Bainbridge, 1977).

Modern usage

Early North Americansettlers from Europe often build crude houses in the form oflog cabins

For Canada, the termsettlercurrently di used to describe "the non-Indigenous peoples when di live for Canada who form the European-descended sociopolitical majority," asserting say settler colonialism bu an ongoing phenomenon. The usage di controversial.

For the Middle East, it get a number of references to various squatter and specific policies when them refer to as "settler".

• Israel – Israelis when move enter areas when them capture during the Six-Day War in 1967 (such as theGaza StripandWest Bank) in the absence of a final peace agreement.
• Syria– In recent times, Arab settlers done also move in large numbers to ethnic minority areas, such as northeast Syria.
• Cyprus– In the aftermath of theTurkish invasion of Cyprus,the Turkish government start to settle farmers from the mainland in the newly declaredTurkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.Today it di estimated that these settlers constitute around half the population of Northern Cyprus.

Causes of emigration

The reasons for the emigration of settlers di different, but often they include the following factors and incentives: the desire to start a new and better life for a foreign land, personal financial hardship, social, cultural, ethnic, or religious persecution (e.g., the Pilgrims and Mormons), penal deportation (e.g. of convicted criminals from England to Australia), political oppression, and government incentive policies when di aimed at encouraging foreign settlement.