Towards an Island of Hope
Author | : Pacific Conference of Churches. Consultation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Globalization |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Pacific Conference of Churches. Consultation |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Globalization |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Vincent J. Cannato |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2009-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0060742739 |
For most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alongside Plymouth Rock in our nation's founding mythology as the place where many of our ancestors first touched American soil. Ellis Island's heyday—from 1892 to 1924—coincided with one of the greatest mass movements of individuals the world has ever seen, with some twelve million immigrants inspected at its gates. In American Passage, Vincent J. Cannato masterfully illuminates the story of Ellis Island from the days when it hosted pirate hangings witnessed by thousands of New Yorkers in the nineteenth century to the turn of the twentieth century when massive migrations sparked fierce debate and hopeful new immigrants often encountered corruption, harsh conditions, and political scheming. American Passage captures a time and a place unparalleled in American immigration and history, and articulates the dramatic and bittersweet accounts of the immigrants, officials, interpreters, and social reformers who all play an important role in Ellis Island's chronicle. Cannato traces the politics, prejudices, and ideologies that surrounded the great immigration debate, to the shift from immigration to detention of aliens during World War II and the Cold War, all the way to the rebirth of the island as a national monument. Long after Ellis Island ceased to be the nation's preeminent immigrant inspection station, the debates that once swirled around it are still relevant to Americans a century later. In this sweeping, often heart-wrenching epic, Cannato reveals that the history of Ellis Island is ultimately the story of what it means to be an American.
Author | : Patricia Brennan Demuth |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2014-03-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 044847915X |
From 1892 to 1954, Ellis Island was the gateway to a new life in the United States for millions of immigrants. In later years, the island was deserted, the buildings decaying. Ellis Island was not restored until the 1980s, when Americans from all over the country donated more than $150 million. It opened to the public once again in 1990 as a museum. Learn more about America's history, and perhaps even your own, through the story of one of the most popular landmarks in the country.
Author | : Manchester Geographical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 686 |
Release | : 1899 |
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Author | : Manchester Geographical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Geography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Globalization |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sally Nicholls |
Publisher | : Scholastic Fiction |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2015-04-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1407145312 |
From one of the brightest talents in teen fiction and the winner of the Waterstones Children's Book prize comes a new novel about family and friendship.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1840 |
Genre | : Merchant mariners |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Megan A. Carney |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2021-05-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520975561 |
With thousands of migrants attempting the perilous maritime journey from North Africa to Europe each year, transnational migration is a defining feature of social life in the Mediterranean today. On the island of Sicily, where many migrants first arrive and ultimately remain, the contours of migrant reception and integration are frequently animated by broader concerns for human rights and social justice. Island of Hope sheds light on the emergence of social solidarity initiatives and networks forged between citizens and noncitizens who work together to improve local livelihoods and mobilize for radical political change. Basing her argument on years of ethnographic fieldwork with frontline communities in Sicily, anthropologist Megan Carney asserts that such mobilizations hold significance not only for the rights of migrants, but for the material and affective well-being of society at large.
Author | : Great Britain. Hydrographic Department |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : Pilot guides |
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