From Ellis Island to JFK : New York's two great waves of immigration /

From Ellis Island to JFK : New York's two great waves of immigration /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Foner, Nancy, 1945- author.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press ; New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2000] ©2000
Description:	1 online resource (x, 334 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History. Emigration and immigration. Immigrants. New York (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History. New York (State) -- New York. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11179207

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ISBN:	9780300137880 0300137885 9780300082265 0300082266 9780300093216 0300093217
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-322) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"In the history, the very personality, of New York City, few events loom larger than the wave of immigration at the turn of the last century. Today a similar influx of new immigrants is transforming the city again. Better than one in three New Yorkers is now an immigrant. From Ellis Island to JFK is the first in-depth study that compares these two huge social changes. A key contribution of this book is Nancy Foner's reassessment of the myths that have grown up around the earlier Jewish and Italian immigration--and that deeply color how today's Asian, Latin American, and Caribbean arrivals are seen"--
Other form:	Print version: Foner, Nancy, 1945- From Ellis Island to JFK. New Haven : Yale University Press ; New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2000

Table of Contents:

Who they are and why they have come
Where they live
The work they do
Immigrant women and work
The sting of prejudice
Transnational ties
Going to school
A look backward, and forward.