New York`s Two Great Waves of Immigration
by
Professor Nancy Foner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
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...