Author : Dorothee Schneider
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0674047567
Dorothee Schneider relates the story of immigrants’ passage from an old society to a new one, and American policymakers’ debates over admission to the United States and citizenship. Bringing together the histories of Europeans, Asians, and Mexicans, the book opens up a fresh view of immigrant expectations and government responses.
Author : Ronald H. Bayor
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1421413671
What happened along the journey? How did the processing of so many people work? What were the reactions of the newly arrived to the process (and threats) of inspection, delays, hospitalization, detention, and deportation? How did immigration officials attempt to protect the country from diseased or "unfit" newcomers, and how did these definitions take shape and change? What happened to people who failed screening? And how, at the journey's end, did immigrants respond to admission to their new homeland? Ronald H. Bayor, a senior scholar in immigrant and urban studies, gives voice to both immigrants and Island workers to offer perspectives on the human experience and institutional imperatives associated with the arrival experience. Drawing on firsthand accounts from, and interviews with, immigrants, doctors, inspectors, aid workers, and interpreters, Bayor paints a vivid and sometimes troubling portrait of the immigration procedure.
Author : Marjory Harper
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1912387395
Marjory Harper explores the motives and experiences of migrants, settlers and returners by focusing on the personal testimonies of the two million men, women and children who left Scotland in the 20th century.
Author : Donna R. Gabaccia
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0691134197
With an emphasis on American immigration during the late 19th century and early 20th-century industrial era and the contemporary era of free trade, Gabaccia shows that immigrants were not isolationists who cut ties to their countries of origin or their families.
Author : Constance M. Greiff
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812280470
Carefully researched and fully documented, Independence chronicles the history of the "cradle of liberty" that is Independence National Historical Park, the historical site most closely connected with the nation's founding. Constance M. Greiff illustrates how the park was shaped by national events and conditions in Philadelphia, change and growth within the National Park Service, and the interpersonal and political struggles among the key people involved in the park's development. She traces the process by which the participants arrived at the ideas underpinning the park's creation and development, conflicting views about the purpose and scope of the park, and the resolution of those conflicts.
Author : David L. Ames
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 13,34 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN :
Author : Alfred Goldberg
Publisher : Office of the Secretary, Historical Offi
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 2007-09-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
The most comprehensive account to date of the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and aftermath, this volume includes unprecedented details on the impact on the Pentagon building and personnel and the scope of the rescue, recovery, and caregiving effort. It features 32 pages of photographs and more than a dozen diagrams and illustrations not previously available.
Author : Edward Alfred Steiner
Publisher :
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Aliens
ISBN :
Author : M. Teresa Baer
Publisher : Indiana Historical Society
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 18,9 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0871952998
The booklet opens with the Delaware Indians prior to 1818. White Americans quickly replaced the natives. Germanic people arrived during the mid-nineteenth century. African American indentured servants and free blacks migrated to Indianapolis. After the Civil War, southern blacks poured into the city. Fleeing war and political unrest, thousands of eastern and southern Europeans came to Indianapolis. Anti-immigration laws slowed immigration until World War II. Afterward, the city welcomed students and professionals from Asia and the Middle East and refugees from war-torn countries such as Vietnam and poor countries such as Mexico. Today, immigrants make Indianapolis more diverse and culturally rich than ever before.
Author : Peter M. Coan
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 9780760753095
Contains transcripts of interviews with over one hundred of the last surviving immigrants who came through Ellis Island to America, and includes conversations with six employees of the island in which they discuss their duties and experiences.
