Coming to America: The Immigrant Experience: Recent Episodes
Sian Harvey
We are a group of undergraduate history students from the University of Southampton, we have created the podcast series as part of our group project module. This podcast series will explore and evaluate how the New York population responded to various immigrant populations between 1860-1910. We will focus on 3 immigrant groups: the Irish, Chinese and Jewish. If you’re interested in learning more, the following link will provide a list of citations to explore the topic further. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-yzFEnmB4ZgLyS5FsMd1GUcB8HFRxks19wu__z5KjYY/edit?usp=sharing
In this episode, we draw together the information from the individual episodes to evaluate how the New York population responded to various immigrant groups. As well as looking at the position of immigrants in America today.
In this episode, we look at the life of Rose Gollup Cohen, a Jewish immigrant who lived in the Lower East Side around the turn of the century. We explore working conditions and the roots of antisemitism to evaluate how the New York population responded to Jewish immigrants.
In this episode, we look at the life of Bok Chin, a Chinese immigrant. We explore the issues of crime, jobs and legal discrimination to evaluate how the New York population responded to Chinese immigrants.
In this episode, we look at the life of Annie Moore and Patrick O'Neill who were both Irish Immigrants who arrived in New York in the late 19th Century. We also explore the issue of job discrimination and religious conflict to evaluate how the New York population responded to Irish immigrants.
In this episode, we introduce our podcast, Coming To America, and give some context about the USA during the turn of the 20th century.