Encountering Ellis Island

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Encountering Ellis Island

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Author : Ronald H. Bayor
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2014-05-15

Encountering Ellis Island written by Ronald H. Bayor and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-15 with History categories.

A look at the process of entering America a hundred years ago—from both an institutional and a human perspective. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice America is famously known as a nation of immigrants. Millions of Europeans journeyed to the United States in the peak years of 1892–1924, and Ellis Island, New York, is where the great majority landed. Ellis Island opened in 1892 with the goal of placing immigration under the control of the federal government and systematizing the entry process. Encountering Ellis Island introduces readers to the ways in which the principal nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American portal for Europeans worked in practice, with some comparison to Angel Island, the main entry point for Asian immigrants. 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 process. In reality, Ellis Island had many liabilities as well as assets. Corruption was rife. Immigrants with medical issues occasionally faced a hostile staff. Some families, on the other hand, reunited in great joy and found relief at their journey's end. Encountering Ellis Island lays bare the profound and sometimes-victorious story of people chasing the American Dream: leaving everything behind, facing a new language and a new culture, and starting a new American life.

Environment And Planning

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Environment And Planning written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Electronic journals categories.

International interdisciplinary journal discussing the relations between Society and Space. Space is broadly conceived: from landscapes of the body to global geographies; from cyberspace to old growth forests; as metaphorical and material; as theoretical construct and empirical fact. Covers both practical politics and the abstractions of social theory.

Transatlantic Encounters

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Author : Udo J. Hebel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995

Transatlantic Encounters written by Udo J. Hebel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with American literature categories.

Encounters

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989

Encounters written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Latin America categories.

First Encounters

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Author : Nancy Caldwell Sorel
language : en
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Release Date : 1994

First Encounters written by Nancy Caldwell Sorel and has been published by Alfred A. Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Art categories.

Fresh from a 12-year engagement in the pages of The Atlantic--65 wonderfully witty "first encounters" of the great and near great, the famous and infamous, throughout history. Brilliantly conceived and beautifully executed--with superb full-color drawings. A book to give as a gift and to enjoy and treasure as one's own.

Deleuzian Encounters

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Author : Anna Hickey-Moody
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Release Date : 2007-11-13

Deleuzian Encounters written by Anna Hickey-Moody and has been published by Palgrave MacMillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-13 with Philosophy categories.

Deleuzian Encounters brings together sixteen accessible, thought-provoking essays that examine the practical and ethical implications of Deleuze's philosophy for different contemporary social issues. Topics explored include: the environment, terrorism, refugees, indigenous reconciliation, gender, suicide, intellectual disability, injecting drug use, classroom teaching and global activism. Each contribution provides practical examples of how to make use of Deleuze's thought in social research, and offers fresh insights into the creative and innovative potentials Deleuze's philosophy holds for social thought and action.

Simple Encounters

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Author : Chris Clarke-Epstein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995

Simple Encounters written by Chris Clarke-Epstein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Essays categories.

We all have those moments in life where an event, turn of phrase or special experience singles itself out and nestles into our souls in such a way that we emerge just a bit different. These special encounters often begin as simple ones, and they can be easily overlooked or forgotten. If we take note, they can leave us wiser, more sensitized and perhaps more able to handlt the challenges life also offers from time to time.

Civil And Merchant Vessel Encounters With United States Navy Ships 1800 2000

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Author : Greg H. Williams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Civil And Merchant Vessel Encounters With United States Navy Ships 1800 2000 written by Greg H. Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.

Contacts or incidents (among them collisions, rescue missions, groundings, founderings, intentional scuttlings, piracy, and other contacts) occurring between nearly 1,000 United States Navy ships and over 900 merchant vessels, yachts, workboats, and other craft during peacetime and wartime throughout the history of the Navy, are the subject of this reference work. The oldest contact in the book occurred in the year 1800 and the latest happened in February 1999 when a Navy sub torpedoed the merchant vessel New Carissa off the coast of Oregon. Some events became international incidents, such as the time in 1962 when Russian MiGs from Cuba fired rockets at the Ala, an American shrimpboat, in international waters between Florida and Cuba. Some encounters between civil and merchant vessels and the Navy have gone to various courts for investigation or civil action and this work includes accounts given by participants or survivors, witness statements, trial and appellate testimony and opinions, and official reports made by those involved. The civil and merchant vessels are arranged alphabetically and indexes are provided for the naval ships and persons. There is also a general index.

Encounters With The Jewish People

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Author : Chaim Raphael
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979

Encounters With The Jewish People written by Chaim Raphael and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.

Pacific Encounters

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Author : Steven Hooper
language : en
Publisher: Te Papa Press
Release Date : 2006

Pacific Encounters written by Steven Hooper and has been published by Te Papa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Art categories.

Pacific Divinities brings together for the first time many stunning Polynesian objects gathered during the 18th and 19th centuries, where Pacific people first made contact with European voyagers, missionaries and settlers. The book presents over 250 items with short captions, including sculptures in wood and stone, feather and basketry images, feather cloaks, wood bowls, decorated bark cloths, ornaments and valuables of ivory, shell, bone and nephrite. Objects come from across the Pacific - from the Society Islands (Tahiti), Austral Islands, Cook Islands, Marquesas Islands, Hawaii, Easter Island, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa and Aotearoa New Zealand. Three introductory essays place the objects in their cultural and historical contexts, and give information on the role, meaning and interpretation of Polynesian art and material culture, the history of the collection of this material by missionaries, traders and explorers (Cook et al.), and its place in museums today. Essays are illustrated with maps and archival pictures (including paintings, engravings from Cook's Voyages and missionary publications).This groundbreaking book conveys the wonder and excitement not only of these rare and valuable objects, but of the cultures and cultural interactions which gave rise to them...Many were collected during the voyages of Cook, Vancouver and other explorers, and by early Christian missionaries, and have remarkable stories to tell.