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A 5 page paper that answers 13 questions on immigration drawn from Nancy Foner's From Ellis Island to JFK, New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration (Yale University Press, 2000). The questions basically contrast immigration to New York City in 1890 with statistics from the 1990s. No additional sources cited.
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classes, coming to the US in search of economic prosperity, as much as freedom, today immigrants are frequently from their countrys professional and middle classes (Foner 9). A hundred years
ago, immigrants stepped off the boats at Ellis Island "dirty and bedraggled, after a long ocean journey in steerage" but today they typically step off a plane at John F.
Kennedy International Airport, "often dressed in designer jeans and fashionable attire" (Foner 10). 2. What immigrants dominated NYC at the turn of the century? Just prior to 1900,
New York Citys newest wave of immigrants were primarily Russian Jews and Italians (Foner 10). Previously, in the mid-nineteenth century, Irish and German immigrants were dominant. In 1880, there were
only 12,000 foreign-born Italians living in NYC, but by 1910, that number had increased to 341,000 (Foner 10). The Russian Jewish population experienced even faster growth, going from 14,000 in
1880 to 484,000 in 1910 (Foner 10). At the time, NYC was a much smaller city than it is today, as in 1910 it was home to under 5 million
people. Therefore, by 1910, Russian Jews and Italians constituted close to a fifth of the citys population (Foner 10). 3. What immigrants dominate NY in the 1990s? Today,
there are no two dominant groups among new immigrants to NYC as there was at the beginning of the twentieth century. On the other hand, never before has the
US received immigrants from so many different countries (Foner 10). However, the top three nationalities immigrating to NYC in 1990 were Dominicans, Chinese and Jamaicans (Foner 11). The "Caribbean connection"
was particularly strong in regards to immigration to NYC in the 1990s, as one out of every three immigrant New Yorkers was Caribbean born (Foner 11). 4. What is
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