Settler

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A settler or colonist is a person who establishes or joins a permanent presence that is separate to existing communities. The entity that settlers establish is a settlement. A settler is called a pioneer if they are among the first settling at a place that is new to the settler community.^[1] While settlers can act independently, they may receive support from the government of their nation or its colonial empire, or from a non-governmental organization, as part of a larger campaign.

The process of settling land can be, and has often been, controversial; while human migration is itself a normal phenomenon, it has not been uncommon throughout human history for settlers to have arrived in already-inhabited lands without the intention of living alongside the native population. In these cases, the conflict that arises between the settlers and the natives, or Indigenous peoples, may result in warfare and possibly the dispossession of the latter within the contested territory desired, usually violently.^[2]

The lifestyle of a native population is often disturbed or destroyed if they come into contact with a settler population, particularly when the settler population seeks to mostly replace them.^[3] Settlers may also engender a change in culture, or alteration of the existing culture, among the natives.^[4] New populations have also been created by the mixing of settlers and natives, including Cape Coloureds in South Africa and Anglo-Indians.^[5]^[6]

Historical usage

Chilean settlers in Baker River, Patagonia, 1935.

Many times throughout history, settlers occupied land that was previously inhabited by long-established peoples, who are designated as "native" or "Indigenous". The process by which Indigenous territories are settled by foreign peoples is usually called settler colonialism.^[7] Such a process relies upon dispossession, often violent.^[2]

In the figurative usage, a pioneer (a "person who goes first or does something first") also applies to the American English use of "pioneer" to refer to a settler – a person who has migrated to a less-densely occupied area and established permanent residence there, often to colonize the area, as recorded in the English language from at least 1605.^[8]^[9] In United States history, "settlers" can refer to the Europeans who were part of the process of settling lands which were new to them.

The Russian Empire regularly invited Russian subjects and foreign nationals to settle in sparsely populated lands, mostly in North Asia, but also in Central Asia and the Russian Far East.^[10] Such exercises resulted in the inception of Slavo-Serbia, the Volga Germans, Volhynia, Russians in Kazakhstan and Green Ukraine, among other phenomena.

Although settlers in the early modern era frequently made use of sea-routes, significant waves of settlement could also use long overland routes, as in the 19th-century cases of the Great Trek by the Boer-Afrikaners in South Africa, or of the Oregon Trail in the United States.

Anthropological usage

Anthropologists record the tribal displacement of native settlers who drive another tribe from the lands it held. Examples include:

the settlement of lands in the area now called Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, where the Ohlone people settled in areas that were previously inhabited by the Esselen people^[11]
the Māori settlement of the Chatham Islands from 1835

Modern usage

Early European settlers in North America often built crude houses in the form of log cabins.

In Canada, the term "settler" is used by some to characterise "the non-Indigenous peoples living in Canada who form the European-descended sociopolitical majority", thereby suggesting that settler colonialism is an ongoing phenomenon. The usage is controversial.^[12]^[13]^[14]

In the Middle East and North Africa, there are more recent examples of settler communities being established:

Iraq – the Ba'athist Arabization campaigns in northern Iraq, which began in 1968, resulted in the ethnic cleansing of non-Arabs, especially Kurds, whom Arab settlers then replaced in a process that continued until the 2003 invasion of Iraq.^[17]
Israel – large-scale immigration of Jews to modern Palestine began by 1882—namely to Jerusalem, Hebron, Tiberias, Safed, Jaffa, Haifa, Peki'in, Acre, Nablus, Shfaram, Petah Tikva and various other locations.^[18] By 1948, about 630,000 Jewish residents lived there, of which about 460,000 were immigrants.^[19] After the 1967 Arab–Israeli War and the Jewish exodus from the Muslim world, Jews from around the world began moving into the formerly restricted and Jordan-occupied West Bank and the formerly Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip. Since the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948, more than 3 million Jews have made aliyah (lit. 'ascent'),^[20] the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to the geographical Land of Israel. Israeli settlement has been discussed in the Israeli–Palestinian peace process.^[21]^[22]
Cyprus – after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, citizens of the Republic of Turkey began moving into the internationally unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. As of 2016^[update] it was estimated that these Turkish settlers constituted around half of the population of Northern Cyprus.^[23]
Morocco – from the beginning of the Western Sahara conflict in the 1970s, citizens of the Kingdom of Morocco began moving into the Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara.^[24]

Settler sociology

The right of freedom of movement may imply that anyone may settle anywhere, laws and limitations notwithstanding, and non-African modern humans, who originated in Africa, all descend from settlers who travelled elsewhere. However, various types of settlers may stand out in initial settlement-patterns:

Misfits

Societies with rigid structural institutions such as primogeniture may make it desirable for younger sons to settle elsewhere.^[a] The American slogan "Go West, young man" directly addresses the young in promoting settlement of the American West. And folk-tales exemplify the role of younger brothers: the archetypal youngest son must go out into the world to seek his fortune; often he rescues and marries a (foreign) princess and inherits half of her father's kingdom.^[b]

Social systems featuring habits of polygyny or of concubinage, which occurred commonly in pre-modern society,^[26]^[27] can generate quantities of unmarriageable young men. They can produce new ethnic groups abroad – including secondary settler-populations (descendants of settlers who themselves can become settlers) such as the Métis in Canada^[28] and the Griqua people in southern Africa.^[29]^[30]

Trouble-makers

Britain exported indentured convicts to its North American settlements,^[31]^[32] and later (1788 to 1868) to the Australian colonies which convicts and ex-convicts helped to develop and to populate.^[33] Russia and the Soviet Union developed and peopled much of Siberia with convicts and exiles.^[34] France sent convicts to Devil's Island in French Guiana^[35]^[36] and exiled socialist revolutionary communards and other prisoners to New Caledonia.^[37] Disgraced remittance-men might skulk on the outskirts of settler society: paid by their relatives to stay a decent distance away from the metropole.^[38]

Opportunists

Frontiersmen and colonial entrepreneurs represent the classical romantic type of "sturdy-pioneer" settlers. Portuguese and Spanish conquistadors, British traders in India and pioneer planters in the early colonies of the Southern United States belong traditionally in this group. Some early colonial land-grants made ownership conditional on attracting more people via headrights – using territory to lure settlers who would recruit further settlers. Gold rushes drew many people, some of whom subsequently became settlers in remote lands (Brazil, California, and Australia, for example).^[39]^[40] Economic incentives have long influenced the movements of migrants^[41]^[42] – most recently in the form of "golden passports".^[43]

Refugees

Political, religious, or economic oppression or disadvantage can induce whole sub-groups to emigrate. Anti-monarchist Norsemen traditionally settled Iceland;^[44]^[45] nomad tribes seek more favorable territories for temporary or permanent settlement;^[46] Puritans fled from Europe to North America; Jews move to and fro across the globe; disadvantaged people from (for example) the Third World seek opportunities elsewhere.

Chain migrants

Families, fiances and fellow-villagers (for example) can follow earlier settlers to new lands. The practice of chain migration requires reverse communication or return migration, but has a long tradition with several variants. Chain migration, with voyaging to and fro, can explain the island-hopping strategies that led to the peopling of the Pacific Ocean by Austronesian peoples from about 3000 BCE onwards.^[47]^[48] Seventeenth-century France exported les Filles du Roy to French settlements in Canada with the aim of stabilising and boosting the population of the French settler society there.^[49] In the 1950s, young women from the Netherlands arrived in New Zealand by the plane-load with a view to marrying their erstwile compatriots.^[50]

Causes of emigration

The reasons for the emigration of settlers vary, but often they include the following factors and incentives: the desire to start a new and better life in 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 governmental incentive-policies aimed at encouraging foreign settlement.^[51]^[52]^[53]

Accounts of the "barbarian" Völkerwanderung of Late antiquity in Eurasia give the impression that whole tribes sometimes migrated en masse into new areas of settlement: warriors bringing their households ("women and children") with them.^[54] Postulated causes of these mass-migrations include:

the defeat of the migrants by other migrants (such as the Huns) encroaching into their former territories^[55]^[56]
climate change disrupting societies on and around the Eurasian steppe^[57]^[58]
natural disasters such as the outbreak of disease or plague^[59]

Settler economics

Humans have taken various approaches when starting and sustaining the settling process, and may employ such means individually, successively or in parallel:

Packing a picnic lunch

Initially, settlers come as travelers – in vehicles, on horseback, or on foot.^[60] The first hours and days of settlement resemble the journey, with supplies and comestibles brought by and with the incomers. The first human settlers arriving on Mars, for example, must expect to carry with them all things needed in order for them to survive for a lengthy period of time: not just food and water, but oxygen as well; not just clothing and shelter, but protection against radiation and against low atmospheric pressure. Sustaining such an unintegrated settlement over the long haul requires careful and detailed planning.

Living off the land

A completely uninhabited target territory for settling – a true terra nullius – minimises potential land-ownership disputes. Thus the first Polynesian settlers in the Pacific Islands,^[61] or the early Norse settlers in medieval Iceland and Greenland,^[62] or the pioneering French settlers in the Falkland Islands/Malvinas in 1764,^[63] could unload their belongings and start farming, hunting or fishing in short order. Self-sufficient settlements may result – until the economic and other processes of globalisation come to bear.^[64]

Befriending the locals

Incoming settlers seen as invaders may not last long.^[c] Wholesale land-grabs with a view to settlement can prove costly and provoke reaction.^[d] Limited numbers of immigrants with a reputation for behaving arrogantly in a culturally hostile environment may have to operate under disadvantageous conditions.^[e] It often pays to make friends with existing populations^[f] and to establish mutually beneficial trading^[g] or military^[h] relationships: survival may depend on some degree of integration into a local environment and society. It may help incoming arrivals to find or invent a legend of invitation^[i] (an invitation implies friendly agreement with at least some element of the locals, such as (for example) an oppressed tribe, or a (formerly) ruling faction fallen on hard times). Trade-oriented settlers may establish a modus vivendi with their local compradors.^[73]

Exploiting the locals

Failing a speedy social integration, settlers and locals may form distinct groups, classes or castes.^[j] (The "divide and rule" mantra has general application.) One group may harness the labor of another through tribute, wages, servanthood or slavery. New trading patterns may alter existing economies.^[k] Social and cultural boundaries may arise. In reaction, earlier populations may move away (forcibly or voluntarily),^[l] succumb to genocide, exploitation or disease,^[m] or revolt.

Replacing the locals

If settlement results, by whatever means, in reducing or eliminating earlier populations, this is one possible cause of gaps in the economic system, deficiencies which may result in fewer trading opportunities, under-exploited lands and waters, and a dearth of cheap available labor. Mass new immigration can fill such gaps, but suitable volunteers may come in insufficient numbers. Enter the systems of indentured labor,^[n] transported felons,^[o] and imported slaves.^[p]

Replicating the homeland

Where the environment permits, settlers can express a preference for familiar landscapes and economies mirroring their metropole. Thus fields of crops and clusters of commercial urban centers can emerge in distant lands.^[q]

Some carefully-planned settlement processes deliberately attempt to reproduce salient economic features or to promote desired economic features of the settlers' original society.^[r]

Serving the homeland

Apart from any demographic, military or strategic use, metropoles can view new settlements as suppliers of goods^[s] and as markets for metropolitan products.^[t] Theoretically, mercantilist practices emphasise the role of colonies in enriching the motherland.^[95] But perceived exploitation of or by settlers can lead to ruptures between new lands and the settlers' ancestral homelands (as with the Thirteen Colonies in the 1770s, or Ireland in the 20th century).

Surpassing the homeland

Brazil, peopled by formerly Portuguese settlers, became the headquarters of the Portuguese Empire in 1808, then established independence and its own Brazilian Empire in 1822; Luso-Brazilians now arguably wield more heft than the citizens of their former metropole. Propaganda encouraging British settlement in New Zealand envisaged the antipodes as a "better Britain".^[96] James Oglethorpe's plans and policies in establishing the Province of Georgia as a British colony in the mid-18th century not only fed into the perennial fantasy of ridding the metropole of unemployed and unemployable persons,^[97] but also included measures aimed at developing a better society^[98] – free of slavery,^[99] hard liquor^[100] and unfettered urbanisation^[101] while featuring "agrarian equality".^[102] And the United States of America has somewhat outgrown its former role as a cluster of British settlements on the fringes of the north-west Atlantic to become a major force in the Anglosphere and beyond, surpassing the erstwhile British Empire.

Notes

[a]
Winston Churchill explained British primogeniture habits: 'We give everything to the eldest and the others strive to duplicate it and found empires.'^[25]
[b]
Compare Aarne–Thompson type 530.
[c]
For example, Viking settlement in Vinland proved short-lived. Tradition implicates conflict between the Norse and the skrælingjar.^[65]
[d]
In the 1940s, Nazi Germany's conquest of Lebensraum in Eastern Europe for settlement by Wehrbauern and others^[66] cost millions of Reichsmarks and lives and ended in failure.
[e]
Prior to 1853, Japanese authorities severely restricted the activities of foreigners operating in trading settlements such as Dejima in Japan during the Edo period of 1603 to 1868.^[67]
[f]
According to the myth of the First Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim Fathers in Massachusetts owed their survival to (initially) benevolent indigenes.
[g]
Trading posts or factories, comprised generally of small minorities of foreigners settling in a foreign land, depend on a certain minimum of cordial relationships with at least some local contacts. Exclaves like the Hanse kontors provide examples.^[68]^[69]
[h]
The Roman Empire settled various fleeing or defeated Germanic peoples in imperial borderlands, and employed them as auxiliary troops.^[70]
[i]
Thus pro-Saxon propaganda tells the tale of Vortigern and the invitations to Anglo-Saxons to settle in 5th-century sub-Roman Britain, ^[71] while Normanist historians make much of traditions of Eastern Slavs inviting Norsemen to come and rule over their lands.^[72]
[j]
As a possibly extreme example, successive waves of settlers in India contributed to shaping the complex caste system which developed there, whether they (allegedly) originated the concept^[74] or merely adapted it.^[75] In the United States of America, for example, some settler-descendants from Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia or Latin America have developed as distinct groupings.^[76]
[k]
In Africa, hut taxes could draw locals into the ambit of a cash economy.^[77] In Siberia and Alaska, Russian promyshlennik settlers and officials demanded taxes (yasak – "tribute") payable in furs.^[78]
[l]
Note for example the Trail of Tears in 19th-century North America and the Great Trek of the voortrekkers in 19th-century South Africa.
[m]
Many Native Americans in the early years of Spanish settlement in the Americas died of disease or in slavery. Notably, much of the indigenous population of the Caribbean Islands disappeared from history.^[79] In the 19th century, European settlers severely depleted numbers of the population of Aboriginal Tasmanians.^[80]
[n]
Examples of indentured labor include its operation in British colonies in America,^[81] as well as the girmitiya system in places like Fiji.^[82]^[83]
[o]
Notable examples of penal exile with the aim or side-effect of developing newly settled areas include the Imperial Russian systems of katorga (Russian: каторга) and exile^[84] and the British Empire's export of convicts to colonies in America^[85] and in Australia.^[86]
[p]
Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony imported slaves from Asia and from Madagascar (some of their descendants became the Cape Coloured and Cape Malay populations in South Africa);^[87] the Atlantic slave trade had the purpose of supplying labor to settler economies in the Americas.^[88]
[q]
Settlers in Brazil, for example, can convert rain-forest into ranch-land;^[89] and Chinese settler communities have developed Chinatowns^[90] across the globe for centuries.
[r]
The "Wakefield System" of "systematic colonisation" developed by Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862) aimed to balance settler land-owners with a class of settler labourers.^[91] Wakefield's utopian ideas played a role in early British settlement of South Australia and of New Zealand.^[92]
[s]
Early-modern settlements planted by Spain and Portugal had the function of producing profitable output such as spices and precious metals.^[93]
[t]
Ancient Greek colonies on the coasts of the Mediterranean could off-load manufactured goods (pottery, art) for trading into the hinterland.^[94]

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Mohl, Raymond A., ed. (1988). The Making of Urban America. SR books. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 19. ISBN 9780842022712. Retrieved 3 March 2026. The same ideas that influenced the Carolina proprietors and South Carolina's Robert Johnson affected Oglethorpe: the belief in the importance of urban settlement, yet the recognition that rural features were necessary to temper the urban landscape. In Oglethorpe's view, the city and the country could be mutually reinforcing environments. The result — a middle landscape — would integrate the best from both worlds.
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Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine. Vol. 117. National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. 1983. p. 126. ISSN 0011-7013. Retrieved 3 March 2026. [The] whole set of restrictions which Oglethorpe called 'the Agrarian Equality,' was how he planned to build a population of small farmers capable of supporting and defending themselves.