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From Ellis Island to JFK : New York's two great waves of immigration /
"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 J...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven : New York :
Yale University Press ; Russell Sage Foundation,
[2000]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 334 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-322) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300137880 0300137885 9780300082265 0300082266 9780300093216 0300093217 |