doi:10.1080/00236567608584381BodnarJohn E.Labor History
Immigration in the 1880s and 1890s, known as the "new immigration," came from Italy, eastern Europe, the Balkans, Poland, and Russia. At the turn of the century, more Italians lived in New York City than any city outside of Rome. More Polish people lived in New York tha...
U.S. Attempts to Limit Immigration in 1882 Congress Passed Laws to Limit Immigration Placed Taxes on Immigrants Coming to the U.S. (Keep Out the Poor) No Beggars/No Criminals/Nobody with Diseases The Chinese Exclusion Act! The Chinese Exclusion Act No Chinese Immigration to the United States...
Between 1880 and 1920, an estimated 4 million Italian immigrants entered the United States. Many passed through the cramped processing center at Ellis Island just outside New York City;Ellis Islandwould become a symbol of immigration during these decades. This generation of Italian immigrants hailed...
An Ellis Island Chief Registry Clerk, Augustus Sherman, captured his unique viewpoint of the influx by bringing his camera to work and taking photos of the wide array of immigrants entering from 1905 to 1914. Although Ellis Island had been open since 1892, the immigration station reached its ...
William Kenneth Hastings was New Zealand's tenth Chief Censor, from October 1999 to July 2010. He was Chairperson of the Immigration and Protection Tribunal from July 2010 until February 2013, and is currently a District Court Judge. Birthplace: Canada Charles Chauvel Age: 55 Charles Pierre Cha...
The focus is on New York City and on two historical eras: the last great wave of immigration from roughly 1880 to the early 1920s and the contemporary wave from the late 1960s to the present. The historical comparative perspective illuminates how, and to what extent, changing receiving ...
Josephine Hall and Edith Sangster, 1930 ship manifest, The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC, USA; Passenger and Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1897-1957; Microfilm Serial or NAID: T715; RG Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service,...
Medical History is a refereed journal devoted to all aspects of the history of medicine, health and related sciences, with the goal of broadening and deepening the understanding of the field, in the widest sense, by historical studies of the highest quality. It is associated with the European ...
According to the Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service 8,672 Spaniards arrived to the United States from 1936 to 1949; 29.3% declared to be manual workers or merchants, 32.7% declared no occupation, and 38% declared to be professionals (Ordaz Romay 1998). 6. United ...