Encountering Ellis Island: How European Immigrants Entered America by Ronald H.

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Encountering Ellis Island by Ronald H. Bayor 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 journeys 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 journeys 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. Author Biography Ronald H. Bayor is a professor emeritus of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology and former president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. He is author of Neighbors in Conflict: The Irish, Germans, Jews, and Italians of New York City, 1929-1941, and coeditor of The New York Irish, both published by Johns Hopkins. Table of Contents PrefacePrologue1. How (and Why) Immigrants Traveled to America2. How Immigrants Were Processed3. How Newcomers Dealt with Delays and Coped with Detainment or Rejection4. How the Immigration Staff and Others Viewed Their Work5. How Immigrants Responded to Entering America and Changed the SystemEpilogueNotesSelected Further ReadingIndex Review Bayor ( Neighbors in Conflict), former president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, fills his quick-moving narrative with dozens of oral and written accounts of those who experienced the Island of Hope, Island of Tears in their quest for the American dream. Publishers Weekly This slim volume is well researched... Students will find this a useful addition to their bibliography. Library Journal In elegant prose in 142 pages (a remarkable achievement), Bayor (emer., Georgia Institute of Technology) includes painful and positive experiences of immigrants and employees on Ellis and Angel Islands, stories representing 20 million new Americans between 1892 and 1924, and those rejected for entry... Highly recommended. Choice Promotional A look at the process of entering America a hundred years ago-from both an institutional and a human perspective. Long Description America is famously known as a nation of immigrants. Millions of Europeans journeyed to the United States in the peak years of 18921924, 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 journeys 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 journeys 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. Review Text "" Encountering Ellis Island is an accessible, succinct, and easy-to-read book. It speaks to several fields of study and can easily be adopted in courses focusing on U.S. immigration history and the immigrant experience and those dealing with progressivism, the Gilded Age, and the social and cultural history of the United States in the twentieth century."" Review Quote This slim volume is well researched... Students will find this a useful addition to their bibliography. Promotional "Headline" A look at the process of entering America a hundred years ago--from both an institutional and a human perspective. Details ISBN142141368X Author Ronald H. Bayor Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press Series How Things Worked Year 2014 ISBN-10 142141368X ISBN-13 9781421413686 Format Paperback Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press Subtitle How European Immigrants Entered America Place of Publication Baltimore, MD Country of Publication United States Birth 1944 Short Title ENCOUNTERING ELLIS ISLAND Language English Media Book Residence US Pages 184 Audience Age 13 DEWEY 304.84073 Affiliation Georgia Institute of Technology Publication Date 2014-07-10 NZ Release Date 2014-07-10 US Release Date 2014-07-10 UK Release Date 2014-07-10 Illustrations 10 Halftones, black and white Alternative 9781421413679 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2014-05-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! 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