All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
Programme
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Women Immigrants confront the Border
| Immigration from Europe, Mexico and the Pacific Rim into the United States was regulated by an ever tightening web of regulations, exclusions and inspection requirements well before the passage of the Johnson Reed Act in 1924. My paper will examine how these regulations and their application affected female immigrants at U.S. border stations during the years 1906-1924. My presentation on the border inspection and admission of female immigrants will have two parts. The first part will outline how the encounters between women immigrants and the immigration inspectors reflected not only prevailing notions of gender roles and domesticity, but were heavily dependent on the geographical location of the port of entry and the race of immigreant women. Part two of my presentation will show how women immigrants were able to understand and interpret gender and race specific requirements for sucessful admission and re-present their lives and their plans as immigrants in a way that fit the ideals of working class domesticity and morality which applied in their situation. The paper will be based on extensive research with the files of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the published reports of this agency
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