Tag Archives: immigrants
Hungarian Immigrants
My mother immigrated to the United States from Hungary with her father and brother in 1958. Hungary was under military occupation by the Soviet Union after the defeat of Hungary in World War II and Communism was in effect for … Continue reading
Hello land of prosperity
In the 1990s, a small part of my family immigrated to the United States from Haiti. At the time, there were many difficulties in finding a job in Haiti, so they were forced to emigrate to seek a better life. … Continue reading
Shalom!
The reading states that close to one in three New Yorkers in the mid-1990’s. This is a statistic that, being in the current neighborhood I reside in, I feel has remained the same if not increased. The beauty of New … Continue reading
Chelsea
I live in the Chelsea District of Manhattan, New York. “The industrialization of western Chelsea brought immigrant populations from many countries to work in the factories, including a large number of Irish immigrants, who dominated work on the Hudson River … Continue reading
The Boys are Back in Town
The Bowery Boys are a very interesting topic; within the film Gangs of New York were a nativist, anti-Catholic, and anti-Irish gang based north of the Five Points district of New York City. They were primarily stationed in the Bowery … Continue reading
Politics = Violence
Gangs of New York, by Martin Scorsese is a movie that represents life during the mid 19th century in the infamous area known as the Five Points. There were lots of groups that formed with the intent to eliminate the … Continue reading
Made in………
Today there is many debate on what to do with the many immigratesthat we have today. It seem that many look at foreign born as a bad thing. Yes they are pro and cons to having foreigners in America, but … Continue reading
Website!!!!
With the budget available, i should be able to create a decent website that gathers all the information about immigration. When going through the website, one should understand the story of Nnew York until the immigrants came. I would classify each ethnic group by race, … Continue reading
Countless Cultures 3.0
New York’s population, as stated in writings by Binder and Reimers, maximized greatly during the 1720s, as the count jumped from 33,131 to 60,489. This vast popluation growth caused the problematic result of assimilating the new-New Yorkers. The city’s population … Continue reading
The Melting Pot
The “An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City” speaks of how certain ethnicities and races emigrated towards the United States focusing mostly on New York. These immigrants are mostly from Europe and China. Later on in the readings … Continue reading