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Professor: Dr. Peter Vellon
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Instructional Technology Fellow: Caroline Erb-Medina
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Category Archives: February 26
Educational background in the new wave
Immigration into the city is still strong. However, it’s not exactly the same; the kinds of people immigrating into New York City are different, in their education levels for one thing. Foner points out that when Emma Lazarus first wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Eugena McCrann, February 26
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Social Construction and Immigrants
What seems to be a recurring theme in the readings is social constructionism and how it has influenced and continues to influence immigrants and migrants in New York. Society not only decides who is part of what race, but also … Continue reading
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Revising Perceptions of Immigrants
In popular culture and within immigration discussions, a dichotomy between the “old immigrants” and the “new immigrants” is constantly in focus. To define my terms, old immigrants refers to the mainly Italian and Russian Jewish immigration wave just before and … Continue reading
Posted in February 26, Gabrielle Kirschner
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Foner’s Change of the Immigrant Journey
My mother’s parents (and their families) immigrated to America in 1920, and my father came to this country over 45 years later. Their experiences differed profoundly, and paralleled closely the evolution of immigration as explicated by Nancy Foner in … Continue reading
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The Real Immigration Story
There are a lot of misconceptions that are corrected in these readings. For example, I mistakenly believed that illegal immigrants were overrunning our country; mainly because that is the idea that I got from the social media outlets. However, in … Continue reading
Posted in February 26, Gabriella Deane
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America: Land of Opportunity, or Land of Immobile Social Order?
Many immigrants came to America in search of a better life and better opportunities. They left their home countries to look for economic opportunity and religious freedom, and to achieve the American dream. The Irish came because of the famine, … Continue reading
Posted in February 26, Serinna Bradfield
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Immigration Then and Now
As I read Tyler Anbinder’s chapters on immigration I noticed that some of the characteristics she described were still prevalent and applicable to more recent immigration. One example is the concentration of ethnic groups in certain areas that she describes. … Continue reading
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From Ellis Island to JFK
Chapter One of Nancy Foner’s From Ellis Island to JFK explains a lot about the immigrants who are coming in and who have come to New York that many people drastically overlook when speaking about the topic of immigration. While in the … Continue reading
Posted in Christopher Pringle, February, February 26
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Italians vs. Chinese: An Analysis of Immigrant Experiences in Five Points
Reading about the lives of the Italians and the Chinese living in Five Points compelled me to consider the similarities and differences of their experiences. On its face, it seems as if the Italians and Chinese had completely different immigration … Continue reading
Posted in Evan Lefkovitz, February 26
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Immigration and the language issue
Nancy Foner, in her book From Ellis Island to JFK, describes how there is a widespread misconception that the immigrants of the past are very different than those of today. The immigrants of the past are thought of being educated … Continue reading
Posted in February 26, Jordan Willner
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