History in Focus

Immigrants receiving a medical inspection at the Immigration Station, New York City.

From Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 (Open Collections Program, Harvard University Library), digitized historical, manuscript, and image resources selected from Harvard University's library, museum, and archive collections that explore immigration to the United States between 1789 and 1930.

Articles

Migration: crossing borders

History in Focus invited thirteen academics to write short pieces on the idea of crossing borders from their own research perspectives. The resulting articles, listed below, illustrate the breadth and depth of historical research relating to migration. The papers consider various types of borders or boundaries: physical borders, social and cultural borders, linguistic borders, economic borders, religious borders. Different perspectives, different foci and different methodologies have guided the authors of these articles, and we hope they will be of interest to historians and students of migration and of the ways in which borders affect people's lives.

Articles index

• Defending socialism? Benito Corghi and the inter-German border

  by Pertti Ahonen

• Chinabound: Crossing borders in treaty port China

  by Robert Bickers

• From green borders to paper walls: Jewish migrants from Eastern Europe in Germany before and after the Great War

  by Tobias Brinkmann

• War, Cold War, and New World Order: political boundaries and Polish migration to Britain

  by Kathy Burrell

• Beyond the pale? Mary Carpenter and the Irish poor in mid-Victorian Bristol

  by Madge Dresser

• The boundaries of welfare

  by David Feldman

• Pizza, pasta and red sauce: Italian or American?

  by Donna R. Gabaccia

• Crossing borders: migration in Russia and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century

  by Peter Gatrell

• Crossing borders: Scottish emigration to Canada

  by Marjory Harper

• Immigration: saying the unsayable

  by Eric Homberger

• The colonial and post-colonial dimensions of Algerian migration to France

  by Jim House

• Within and beyond the Empire: Irish settlement in Argentina (1830–1930)

  by Edmundo Murray

• Crossing occupation borders: migration to the north-east of England

  by David Renton

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Created Autumn 2006 by the Institute of Historical Research.
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