Small Strangers: The Experiences of Immigrant Children in America, 1880-1925

by Klapper, Melissa

• ISBN13: 9781566637336
• ISBN10: 1566637333
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

Children are the largely neglected players in the great drama of American immigration. In one of history's most remarkable movements of people across national borders, almost twenty-five million immigrants came to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-from Mexico, Japan, and Canada as well as the more common embarkation points of southern and eastern Europe. Many of them were children. Together with the American-born children of immigrants, they made up a significant part of turn-of-the-century U.S. society. Small Strangers recounts and interprets their varied experiences to illustrate how immigration, urbanization, and industrialization-all related processes-molded modern America.

Author Biography

Melissa R. Klapper teaches history at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Childhood and Immigrants: Changing Ideas at the Turn of the Century	p. 3
The Landscape of Early Childhood	p. 18
At School, at Work, at Home, at Play	p. 54
Adolescent Years	p. 108
After the Door Closed: The Effects of Restrictive Legislation and the Depression	p. 161
Immigrant Children and Modern America	p. 177
Notes	p. 183
A Note on Sources	p. 195
Index	p. 211
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