The immigration station at New York's Ellis Island opened in 1892 and remained the largest U.S. port for immigrant entry until World War I. In popular memory, E

“Immigration is now front-page news, and to grasp the background of current issues this is the book to read.” —David Reimers, author of Unwanted Strangers

For the past two decades American scholars have been engaged in an intense examination of social mobility in American life. At the profoundest level, these stud

Safe Haven in America: Battles to Open the Golden Door attempts to present the human face of the immigration, covering cases that are as fascinating as they are

Presents the history of San Francisco's Angel Island Immigration Station that operated between 1910 and 1940. Argues that Asian immigrants, rather than being we