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Passages to America: Oral Histories of Child Immigrants from Ellis Island and Angel Island

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More than twelve million immigrants, many of them children, passed through Ellis Island’s gates between 1892 and 1954. Children also came through the “Guardian of the Western Gate,” the detention center on Angel Island in California that used to be designed to keep Chinese immigrants out of the USA. In response to the oral histories of fifty children who came to the USA before 1950, this book chronicles their American odyssey against the backdrop of World Wars I and II, the upward thrust and fall of Hitler’s Third Reich, and the hardships of the Great Depression. Ranging in age from four to sixteen years old, the children hailed from Northern, Central, Eastern, and Southern Europe; the Middle East; and China.

Across ethnic lines, the child immigrants’ life stories tell a remarkable tale of human resilience. The sources of circle of relatives and community enhance that they relied on, their educational aims and accomplishments, their hard work, and their optimism about the future are just as an important lately for the new immigrants of the twenty-first century. These personal narratives offer unique perspectives on the psychological experience of being an immigrant child and its have an effect on on later development and well-being. They chronicle the joys and sorrows, the aspirations and achievements, and the challenges that these small strangers faced at the same time as becoming grown citizens.

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