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Through the Narrow Gate Author: [US] Vincent J. Canato Publisher: Guangqi Bookstore
Through the Narrow Gate Author: [US] Vincent J. Canato Publisher: Guangqi Bookstore
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☆Welcome to the back of the Statue of Liberty: What kind of people are eligible to enter the United States? Is immigration a right or a privilege? Debunking immigration myths, presenting an immigration epic with vivid details, blood and tears.
☆Witness the birth of a place of memory: How did an inconspicuous island become the "gateway to America"?
☆It reflects the struggle and rise and fall of various political forces in the process of American modernization, which gradually formed the current American political system and identity.
Introduction
"Ellis Island was the great outpost of the vibrant new republic, guarding America's open door. Here the footsteps of a steady stream of immigrants once echoed."
When they pass through this level, will freedom and dreams really greet them?
How should a country treat strangers outside its gates?
Ellis Island, located at the junction of the East River and the Hudson River in New York, was the main immigration inspection station in the United States at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. 12 million immigrants were inspected there, and tens of thousands of enemy aliens and political prisoners were detained there during World War II and the Cold War. It is like a sophisticated sieve, screening immigrants according to various standards and deporting unwelcome people. Until the end of the 20th century, the once abandoned and forgotten Ellis Island was reborn as an immigration museum and national monument...
Canato captured this unprecedented time and place in the history of American immigration, collected a large amount of official historical materials, local archives, folk records and popular culture, and told the stories of immigrants, prosecutors, translators, doctors, politicians, social reformers and even presidents, presenting a panoramic and epic history of the island. Through this process, we can see the modernization process of the United States, including the evolution of sovereignty law, changes in economic models, and how American identity was formed, etc.
About the Author
author:
Vincent J. Cannato
Graduated from Columbia University, currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His research areas include 20th century political history, American urban history, and immigration and ethnic history. He has written "Out of Control City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York" and "American Road", and has also written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
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