From Ellis Island to JFK [electronic resource] : New York's two great waves of immigration / Nancy Foner.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press ; New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2000.Description: 1 online resource (x, 334 p.)ISBN:- 9780300137880
- 0300137885
- 0300082266 (alk. paper)
- 9780300082265 (alk. paper)
- 0300093217
- 9780300093216
- 974.7/1/008691 21
- JV7048 .F65 2000eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-322) and index.
Who they are and why they have come -- Where they live -- Work they do -- Immigrant women and work -- Sting of prejudice -- Transnational ties -- Going to school -- Look backward--and forward.
"In the history of New York City, few events loom larger than the wave of immigration at the turn of the twentieth century. Today a similar influx is once again transforming the city. More than one in three New Yorkers are now immigrants. From Ellis Island to JFK is the first in-depth study that compares these two huge social changes." "Nancy Foner offers a critical reassessment of the myths that have grown up around the earlier Jewish and Italian immigration - myths that deeply color how today's Asian, Latin American, and Caribbean arrivals are seen. Issue by issue, she reveals the often surprising realities of both immigrations." "Drawing on a wealth of historical and contemporary research, Foner, in a lively and entertaining style, opens a new chapter in the study of immigration - and in the story of the nation's gateway city."
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