Encountering Ellis Island

Full title: Encountering Ellis Island: How European Immigrants Entered America

Bayor, a senior scholar in immigrant and urban studies, gives voice to both immigrants and Island workers to offer perspectives on the human experience and institutional imperatives associated with the arrival experience. Drawing on firsthand accounts from, and interviews with, immigrants, doctors, inspectors, aid workers, and interpreters, Bayor paints a vivid and sometimes troubling portrait of the immigration process. Paperback. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 168 pages.