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Encountering Ellis Island: How European Immigrants Entered America
By Bayor, Ronald H.
- ISBN
- 9781421413679 9781421413686
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins
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Reviewed on June 15, 2014 | Social Sciences
At the turn of the 20th century, millions of immigrants passed through New York's Ellis Island as they arrived in America. Bayor (history, Georgia Tech; Neighbor in Conflict) describes the gears of the machine that moved these individuals through inspections and paperwork to their new home. Official reports reveal the frustrations of workers and shortages of resources that were sometimes tempered by empathy and compassion but at o...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
