#ImmigrationHistory

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American Wild West? NOPE!

The conquest of southern Brazil produced similar historical scenes and even civil wars during colonization.

The south of Brazil received a large flow of German, Polish, Italian, Azorean, Swedish, Austrian, Swiss and other European nationalities in smaller numbers of immigrants during the industrial revolution, the traits and their heritage were perpetuated in these cold lands.

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Where this building stands was once the entrance to Shanghai’s Jewish cemetery. Image taken 1985, courtesy of Beit Hatfutsot/The Museum of the Jewish People. Mao Zedong’s government leveled the Jewish cemetery, removed the headstones, and constructed cement factories and housing developments over the graves. Hongkew was built over, and the Jewish buildings altered and re-purposed. The Jewish refugees, their dwellings, shops, and cemeteries had no place in the Chairman Mao's vision of China's future. All content derived from my original research as presented in my 2014 MA Thesis --> https://bit.ly/2CLCrnV. . . . #history #jewishhistory #holocaust #holocausthistory #refugees #refugeehistory #immigrationhistory #china #chinesehistory #shanghai #jewishrefugeecommunityofshanghai #historicitywasalreadytaken #historyblogger #historylovers #historigram https://www.instagram.com/p/ByYqKvJF_al/?igshid=a3cz1ddi1dek

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Second NPS Podcast Episode on Baltimore Immigration History

Baltimore, MD (October 26) –

The NPS National Heritage Areas Program collaborated with the Baltimore National Heritage Area to create a three-part-series on the history of immigration in the city of Baltimore. A group of panelists convened at the Baltimore Immigration Museum to discuss how German, Irish, Jewish, and Italian immigrants, as well as African Americans, moved to Baltimore in the 1800’s and each played a unique role in shaping the city.

The second podcast episode of the series will highlight the experiences of Irish immigrants arriving in Baltimore in the 1800s and working on the railroads. This episode will also feature the stories of enslaved and freed African Americans moving to Baltimore in the 19th century. While not an “immigrant” group, African Americans played a critical role in shaping the character, landscape, and makeup of Baltimore city.

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Ellis Island, New York. Ellis Island opened in 1892 as an immigration processing station. During the 62 years that it was in operation, approximately 12 million immigrants passed through it’s doors. #ellisisland #ellisislandmuseum #ellisislandimmigrationmuseum #newyorktourist #thingstodoinnyc #museum #americanhistory #heritage #immigrationhistory #unitedstates #outandaboutwithliz #visittheusa #heritage #girlswhotravel #travelandtourism #seetheworld🌍 #learnthepast (at Ellis Island) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6EVmiglqi9/?igshid=1hhed6de1c0wp

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#ellisisland #spring2019 #unconditionallove #immigrationhistory

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On June 3, 1911, the Fabre Line began service to Providence, Rhode Island. The Madonna sailed from Marseilles, France to Italy and then the Azores before coming to Providence. For more information on Fabre Line immigration to Providence, click the link in our bio. ⚓️ . . . #immigration #fabreline #ssmadonna #madonna #france #italy #portugal #azores #sshsa #shiphistory #history #maritime #shiphistorycenter #archives #archive #nonprofit #steam #steamship #steamships #providence #rhodeisland #ri #localhistory #maritime #maritimehistory #immigrationhistory #steamingintothefuture #education #edtech #blendedlearning (at The Steamship Historical Society of America)

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Starting in 15 minutes: the performance directed by Abhishek Thapar @funambulist_ Surpassing the Beeline, Frascati Producties thu 08 & fri 09 november Surpassing the beeline dives into the expat’s community in Amsterdam. One country’s emigrant is another’s immigrant. Immigration histories, written primarily in the countries of arrival, has most often focused on the problematic policies and experiences of entry, acceptance, rejection, and/or settlement of newcomers while expats manage to bypass this account because of their economical status. Their past & present and conception of ‘home’ cannot be so neatly severed. In an intimate space meet your local expat, as they deconstruct histories, identities, traditions, homes and a signature food dish. Please Note: Food is served during the performance Concept & Direction Abhishek Thapar Performed by Rinku Kalsy, Hilda Moucharrafieh, Vaishali Nanda, Masha Ru, Sahil Sahni, YiLing Hung https://www.frascatitheater.nl/surpassingthebeeline #performance #voorstelling #frascati #frascatitheater #abhishekthapar #surpassingthebeeline #amsterdam #food #home #expat #expats #expatscommunity #immigration #immigrationhistories #immigrant #emigrant #identity #clay #klei #глина #earth #eatingclay #tradition #ceramics #tea #edible #edibleceramics (at Frascati) https://www.instagram.com/masha7ru/p/Bp7WduylSlS/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gz8sr2rqko20

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Jus Soli in Action: Calvin’s Case (1608)

As discussed in the previous post, the United States concretized jus soli as a method of obtaining citizenship in the Fourteenth Amendment. Today, I would like to review one the first cases when jus soli was put into action and afforded an individual rights based on where and when he was born. 

The approach that an individual has citizenship of the land where he or she is born became part of the common law of England in 1608 with Calvin’s Case, just a few years after the England when the Scottish and English kingdoms were united in 1603 under King James (King James VI of Scotland, King James I of England). 

The main character of the story is Robert Calvin, a boy who was born in Scotland after 1603. Calvin was set to inherit two estates that were located in England. Opponents to him inheriting the estates argued that Calvin could not inherit the land because he was an “alien,” meaning that he was not a subject to the King of England. As such, he also did not have the right to sue for the land that they were trying to keep from him. Calvin’s guardians took the case to court. In court, the issue was whether persons born in Scotland after 1603 were, as a resulted of the kingdoms being united, English subjects. 

The Court held that because Calvin was born in Scotland after the union of the two kingdoms, he was a subject to King James, who was, by that point, the King of Scotland and England. Consequently, Calvin did have the right to inherit and sue under English law. Some of the most famous and well-known reasoning was given by Lord Coke, one of the judges who decided the case. He argued that a natural relationship existed between a King, the sovereign, and one who is born on the sovereign’s land and that there were reciprocal, natural obligations between the two that could not be discounted. 

As a consequence of the decision, anyone born in Scotland after 1603, then referred to as postnati, were considered subjects of King James I. Persons born in Scotland before 1603, referred to as antenati, did not acquire English subjectship. Somewhat awkwardly, the case also meant that there were individuals who were born on the same territory, but had different rights based on when they were born. 

Sources: 

Polly J. Price, Natural Law and Birthright Citizenship in Calvin’s Case, 9 Yale J. of L. & the Humanities 73 (1997). 

James Kettner, The Development of American Citizenship: 1608-1870 (1978).

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The Shanghai Jewish Cemetery, 1947. Images courtesy of Yad Vashem, and Beit Hatfutsot/The Museum of the Jewish People. Between 1939 and 1945 there were 1,581 recorded refugee deaths, including 36 suicides. When the Jews left Shanghai, they left behind the graves of those 1581 people. Evelyn Pike Rubin, whose father and grandmother died in Shanghai, wrote that “The most difficult farewell took place at the cemeteries. We were leaving Vati and Omi in their graves in a strange land. We took photographs of their graves. We knew we would probably never return, and no one would ever visit them.” All content derived from my original research as presented in my 2014 MA Thesis --> https://bit.ly/2CLCrnV. . . . #history #jewishhistory #holocaust #holocausthistory #refugees #refugeehistory #immigrationhistory #china chinesehistory #eastasianhistory #shanghai #jewishrefugeecommunityofshanghai #historicitywasalreadytaken #historyblogger #historylovers #historigram https://www.instagram.com/p/ByTX2wKFAHV/?igshid=rj3szqmol1k

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First NPS Podcast Episode on Baltimore Immigration History

Baltimore, MD (October 23) –

The NPS National Heritage Areas Program collaborated with the Baltimore National Heritage Area to create a three-part-series on the history of immigration in the city of Baltimore. A group of experts convened at the Baltimore Immigration Museum to discuss how people of German, Irish, African American, Jewish, and Italian backgrounds moved to Baltimore, and how each played a unique role in shaping the city during the 1800’s.

The first podcast episode of the series will introduce the Baltimore National Heritage Area, their ties to the Baltimore Immigration Museum, as well as the largest immigrant group to arrive in Baltimore in the 1800’s—people emigrating from Germany.  

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Watson House This structure, now the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of the Rosary, was designed by John McComb in Federal style and built about 1800 when many other mansions occupied this then fashionable thoroughfare. Of particular architectural interest is its colonnade that curves with the line of the street. (Plaque: 1957 by The New York Community Trust) #JohnMcComb #19thcentury#manhattan #downtownmanhattan#newyorkcity #nyc#nationalregisterofhistoricplaces#ShrineofStElizabethAnnBayleySeton#romancatholic #federalstyle#architecture #jameswatsonhouse#jameswatson #batterypark#financialdistrict #statestreet#merchant #harborviews#newyorkcitylandmark#immigrationhistory #immigration#SaintElizabethAnnBayleySeton#ElizabethAnnBayleySeton#historicmarkersofny #historicmarker#historic #historicplaques#newyorkcity #nyc#landmarksofnewyork#hidinginplainsight (at James Watson House)

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An interesting photo showing the history of immigration in Chicago: Fifty Mexican people board a U.S. Border Patrol plane to be deported at Midway Airport to fly to Brownsville, Tx. and then put aboard a boat for Veracruz in 1954. “A second plane load of Mexicans who entered this country illegally is scheduled to leave Midway airport today for Mexico, Walter A. Sahli, district director of immigration and nationalization service, said yesterday. The announcement was made as a drive to clear Chicago of “wetbacks” got into full swing. Twenty-five persons were picked up over the weekend and lodged in county jail. Another 35 to 40 are expected to be picked up today. The immigration service provides transportation for those without funds. The first plane load left Saturday. Sahli estimated there are about 35,000 “wetbacks” in the area including Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit,” wrote the Tribune on Sept. 21, 1954. #vintagechicago #deportations #1950s #immigrationhistory #chicagoimmigrants http://ift.tt/2kzCGYm

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An interesting photo showing the history of immigration in Chicago: Fifty Mexican people board a U.S. Border Patrol plane to be deported at Midway Airport to fly to Brownsville, Tx. and then put aboard a boat for Veracruz in 1954. “A second plane load of Mexicans who entered this country illegally is scheduled to leave Midway airport today for Mexico, Walter A. Sahli, district director of immigration and nationalization service, said yesterday. The announcement was made as a drive to clear Chicago of “wetbacks” got into full swing. Twenty-five persons were picked up over the weekend and lodged in county jail. Another 35 to 40 are expected to be picked up today. The immigration service provides transportation for those without funds. The first plane load left Saturday. Sahli estimated there are about 35,000 “wetbacks” in the area including Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit,” wrote the Tribune on Sept. 21, 1954. #vintagechicago #deportations #1950s #immigrationhistory #chicagoimmigrants http://ift.tt/2kzCGYm

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This porcelain statuette conveys a sobering message about race, immigration, and exclusion in American history. It was made around the 1880s by the Union Porcelain Works of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York. The statuette consists of a male Caucasian figure wearing a Liberty cap seated beside a large eagle in a nest; the figure appears to be holding down the figure of African American male. Below, what appears to be a figure of a Chinese man is either attempting to climb into or is falling from the nest. No documentation has been found to shed light on the meaning of this startling figure group, or to suggest why or for whom it was made. Large numbers of Chinese immigrants began moving to the eastern United States in the 1870s. By 1880, a local newspaper estimated that 1,000 Chinese lived in Brooklyn, where the Unions Porcelain Works factory was located, making it one of the largest Chinese populations on the East Coast. While local community response to this influx was mixed, prejudice toward the newcomers was common. On May 6, 1882, President Chester A. Arthur approved the Chinese Exclusion Act—the first U.S. law to ban immigration based on race or nationality. The act was later repealed in 1943. In the exhibition “Many Voices, One Nation,” this sculpture is paired alongside a statuette of Statue of Liberty, seen by many as a symbol of inclusion and acceptance, that was created around the same time—swipe to see it. Follow the link in our bio to see both statuettes side-by-side: s.si.edu/mvon-negotiation #AsianPacificHeritageMonth #APHM #AmericanHistory #ImmigrationHistory #NewYorkHistory #ChineseAmericanHistory #AfricanAmericanHistory http://bit.ly/2Jn7pHZ

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A refugee dentist at work in the Jewish Hospital in Hongkew, early 1940s. Image courtesy of Beit Hatfutsot/The Museum of the Jewish People. Jewish men whom had had high professional standing in Austria and Germany struggled. Evelyn Rubin once encountered a filthy man with matted blonde hair, clad in rags and covered with sores. He had been a renowned judge back in Germany. Many of these men--doctors, professors, lawyers, judges--ended their lives, unable to accept the loss of everything they had worked so hard for and based their identities upon in Germany. All content derived from my original research as presented in my 2014 MA Thesis --> https://bit.ly/2CLCrnV. . . . #history #jewishhistory #worldwarii #secondworldwar #holocaust #holocausthistory #refugees #refugeehistory #immigrationhistory #china #chinesehistory #eastasianhistory #shanghai #jewishrefugeecommunityofshanghai #historicitywasalreadytaken #historyblogger #historylovers #historigram https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt1Gn3dFdlK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ntxhd8xikzmy

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Shanghai wedding portrait of a Jewish refugee couple Fritz Huber and Lauri, c. 1939-1945. Image courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. And, life went on. All content derived from my original research as presented in my 2014 MA Thesis --> https://bit.ly/2CLCrnV. . . . #history #jewishhistory #worldwarii #secondworldwar #holocaust #holocausthistory #refugees #refugeehistory #immigrationhistory #china #chinesehistory #eastasianhistory #shanghai #jewishrefugeecommunityofshanghai #historicitywasalreadytaken #historyblogger #historylovers #historigram https://www.instagram.com/p/Bt_6NHXld4l/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1aegu5dnt2ypi