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020			_a9781421413679 _q(hardback)
020			_a1421413671 _q(hardback)
020			_a9781421413686 _q(paperback)
020			_a142141368X _q(paperback)
020			_z9781421413693 _q(electronic)
020			_z1421413698 _q(electronic)
035			_a(OCoLC)863043790 _z(OCoLC)880892072 _z(OCoLC)936047891
050	0	0	_aJV6484 _b.B39 2014
082	0	0	_a304.8/7304 _223
092			_a304.873 _bB361e
100	1		_aBayor, Ronald H., _d1944-
245	1	0	_aEncountering Ellis Island : _bhow European immigrants entered America / _cRonald H. Bayor.
264		1	_aBaltimore, Maryland : _bJohns Hopkins University Press, _c[2014]
300			_ax, 168 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aHow things worked
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aHow (and why) immigrants traveled to America -- How immigrants were processed -- How newcomers dealt with delays and coped with detainment or rejection -- How the immigration staff and others viewed their work -- How immigrants responded to entering America and changed the system.
520			_a"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 procedure. 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 by leaving everything behind, facing a new language and a new culture, and starting a new American life."--Publisher information.
610	2	0	_aEllis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) _xHistory.
610	2	1	_aEllis Island Immigration Station (New York, N.Y.) _xHistory.
610	2	7	_aEllis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00631491
610	2	4	_aEllis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
651		0	_aUnited States _xEmigration and immigration _xHistory.
650		0	_aImmigrants _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		7	_aHISTORY _zUnited States _xGeneral. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE _xEmigration & Immigration. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY _xSocial History. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aEmigration and immigration. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00908690
650		7	_aImmigrants. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00967712
651		7	_aUnited States. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
650		7	_aEinwanderer _2gnd
651		7	_aEllis Island _2gnd
650		7	_aInvandrare _xhistoria. _2sao
650		7	_aImmigration _xhistoria. _2sao
651		7	_a _2sao
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655		4	_aNarrative non-fiction.
830		0	_aHow things worked.
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