Melding new construction and adaptive reuse, the ‘Tornado’-topped project marks the first completed cultural commission in ...

From Ellis Island to Lampedusa, from Seoul to Senegal, filmmakers have used cinema to chart the hopes, heartbreak and quiet ...

While ELLIS Prep’s principal celebrated the accomplishments of graduates, she also paused to take stock of the impact of ...

The author argues that illegal immigration is a symptom of these restrictive policies, not the problem itself. The author ...

The Ellis Island entry point was opened in 1892 to handle the inflow, and that experiment was accompanied by a strong assimilationist ethos that included national institutions, New York City, and ...

In a meeting room off to the side of the Hamtramck Public Library, a small group of Yemeni immigrant men — and, at another table, two Yemeni women, in full burqas — are intently learning ...

As immigration decreased, Ellis Island's role began to change. During World War Two, some 7,000 German, Italian and Japanese nationals suspected of being enemy aliens were interred there.

This former quarantine and military station once processed as many as one million immigrants. Now, the picturesque island is one of the San Francisco Bay Area's best urban getaways.

Between 1910 and 1940, the facility processed up to one million immigrants, most of whom were Asian, leading it to be known as the "Ellis Island of the West".

Seventeen-year-old Irish girl Annie Moore was the first of the 12 million who sailed past the Statue of Liberty and started their American stories at Ellis Island in New York City, on January 1, 1892.

In the 30 years it operated as the West Coast’s main immigration center, Angel Island processed some 500,000 immigrants from 80 countries, including Russia, India, Mexico, Korea, and the ...