From Ellis Island to JFK [electronic resource] : New York's two great waves of immigration / Nancy Foner.

9780300137880
0300082266 (alk. paper) :
0300093217

New Haven : Yale University Press ; New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2000.

English

x, 334 p.

JV7048 .F65 2000eb

974.7/1/008691

"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."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-322) and index.

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