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Ellis Island est située dans le Hudson River. Cette île est un des lieux les plus importants de l’histoire de l’immigration des États-Unis. Elle doit son nom à son ancien propriétaire : Samuel Ellis, ancien colon des années 1770. Elle a ensuite été rachetée par l’Etat de New York.
De 1892 à 1954, environ 12 millions d’immigrants venant principalement d’Europe sont arrivés sur l’île, dans l’espoir de passer la porte d’entrée et de vivre « l’American Dream » à New York City.
Ellis Island était alors le centre d’accueil de ces nouveaux arrivants. Les immigrés débarquaient après des dizaines de jours de voyage dans des conditions souvent assez compliquées. Ils devaient ensuite passer un examen médical, répondre à des questions administratives et légales ou encore prouver leur capacité à lire afin de pouvoir traverser « la Golden Door » (la « Porte Dorée ») et commencer à vivre leur nouvelle vie.
Au total 2% des arrivants ne passaient pas à cause de maladies ou car ils avaient commis des crimes, des vols ou autres activités compromettantes à la sécurité de la population.
L’île était d’ailleurs surnommée « The Island of Tears » (l’îles aux pleurs) à cause de ces quelques personnes qui soit mourraient sur place soit étaient obligées de retourner chez eux car ils ne remplissaient pas tous les critères pour devenir un immigré officiel aux États-Unis.
Sur l’île, il n’y a pas grand chose à voir sauf le musée national de l’Immigration – qui vous chamboulera très certainement.
Ce musée « Ellis Island National Immigration Museum » retrace toute cette partie de l’histoire du pays. Vous y découvrirez le parcours des immigrants à travers des photos de familles, des documents, objets personnels, les salles d’accueil et les salles d’examens restaurés…
Depuis 1990, ce musée permet de comprendre comment les américains accueillaient les candidats à l’immigration en filtrant en fonction de différents critères (sanitaires, intellectuels ou juridiques…)
Au premier étage se trouve les anciennes salles d’enregistrement. C’était ici que les immigrés se faisaient questionner et inspecter leurs documents. Les américains faisaient des contrôles médicaux pour s’assurer qu’ils n’avaient pas de maladies contagieuses. Ils vérifiaient leurs origines, s’ils avaient assez d’argent pour vivre, s’ils savaient lire… Les contrôles pouvaient prendre des heures.
Au deuxième étage, vous verrez principalement les dortoirs. En effet, l’entrée aux États-Unis ne se faisaient pas forcément en une journée. Les plus aisés qui étaient venus en 1ère ou 2ème classe et qui n’avaient pas de problème de santé passaient au maximum 5 heures à Ellis Island. Pour les plus pauvres, ils devaient parfois y passer des jours voire des semaines pour s’assurer qu’ils ne seraient des dangers pour la population américaine.
This statue of migrant family is found on the Freemantle Wharf. Many ships coming from Europe had Fremantle as their first stop before continuing on to the eastern states.
Given how the British and Europeans arrived here I do find it ironic that some want to ban all further migration, particularly of certain peoples. As Australia is not reproducing at replacement rate we do need to have a reasonable migration strategy, but not be swamped by the untold millions in the world that would like a safe home, work and place to raise their children.
Since coming back from WA I have tested positive for Covid and spent all day in bed. This is the second time I have got Covid and it seems worse than the last time, which is annoying! HSS
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Street and reportage photography from Glasgow, Scotland.
Colour re-edit of a shot from June 2016.
Captured during a conflict in George Square between a far right white supremacist protest and an anti-fascist pro-immigration counter-protest. The atmosphere was 'tense' to put it mildly.
Immigration is not the problem.
If you think that your country is suffering because of immigration, that there are no jobs, that public services are starved of money, that housing is in crisis, and there are politicians screaming that immigration is to blame - then immigration is not the problem. Misappropriation of public finances is the problem. Immigrants are the scapegoat.
They are not immigrants unless proven to be so either and the overwhelming majority on those 'small boats' actually qualify for asylum as genuine refugees.
So refugees are the problem?
Just remember this, if you only take one thing away from my words here:
We are all just one catastrophe away from needing to seek asylum as a refugee.
In an increasingly unstable world with the coming climate change crisis, food and water security crisis and the beating of war drums around the world, don't think that your need to seek asylum is a distant impossibility. It can happen to any of us.
In a world where you can be anything. Be kind. Care. Take care of others in need if you are in a position to do so. Walk a mile in somebody else's shoes.
Our whole world is built upon the movement of people.
Fight hate with love. Kill it with kindness.
The Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site of Canada is located on the Otonabee River section of the Trent Canal in the City of Peterborough, Ontario. It is a large concrete structure along the Trent-Severn Waterway designed to lift boats 19.8 metres. The lock operates on a balance system, whereby water is let into the upper chamber, a connecting valve is opened and the heavier chamber Peterborough is known as the gateway to the Kawarthas, "cottage country", a large recreational region of the province. It is named in honour of Peter Robinson, an early Canadian politician who oversaw the first major immigration to the area. The city is the seat of Peterborough County.
My trip to Las Vegas during this #COVID19 #pandemic
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Immigration Officer: Why are you here?
Me: I'm an immigrant...this is my mother's last wish- to experience working & living in the USA.
Nash, nativo di Blackpool nel Lancashire inglese, scrisse questa canzone quando, non avendo all’epoca ancora la doppia nazionalità , fu fermato dagli agenti dell’immigrazione al suo ingresso negli USA. Non volevano farlo entrare e lo tennero in attesa per un bel po’ finchè alcuni fans lo riconobbero e cominciarono ad assieparsi per aver un autografo. Solo allora le guardie si decisero a concerdergli il visto d’ingresso.
Fu per Nash un’esperienza molto irritante ed umiliante.
Figuriamoci se non sei Graham Nash, se non sei nessuno, anzi, un disperato, affamato, sporco e per giunta africano che cerca di passare la frontiera con la Francia a Ventimiglia, o su un treno del Sempione per raggiungere la Svizzera, o fermato al Brennero cercando di raggiungere l’Austria o la Germania...
Ma che Europa è questa, che taglieggia ed affama la sua stessa gente (vedi Grecia) e chiude le frontiere rifiutando la dovuta accoglienza a profughi che fuggono da guerre e carestie?
Nash, a native of Blackpool in English Lancashire, wrote this song when, not having the dual nationality at the time, he was stopped by immigration agents as he entered the US. They didn't want to let him in and kept him waiting for quite a while until some fans recognized him and began to gather for an autograph. Only then did the guards decide to grant him an entry visa. It was a very irritating and humiliating experience for Nash. Imagine if you are not Graham Nash, if you are no one, on the contrary, a desperate, hungry, dirty and moreover African who tries to cross the border with France in Ventimiglia, or on a Simplon train to reach Switzerland, or stopped at Brenner trying to reach Austria or Germany ... But what kind of Europe is this, which cuts and starves its own people (see Greece) and closes its borders by refusing to accept refugees fleeing war and famine?
Bird migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south, along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds. Many species of bird migrate. Migration carries high costs in predation and mortality, including from hunting by humans, and is driven primarily by the availability of food.
I was lucky... This flock of birds, was flying around, late in the afternoon, right outside my window in a really low flight ...
Yungaba Immigration Centre is a heritage-listed former immigration hostel at 102 Main Street, Kangaroo Point, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, alongside the Brisbane River. It was designed by John James Clark and built c. 1885 by William Peter Clark. It is also known as Yungaba Immigration Depot, Immigration Barracks, and No.6 Australian General Hospital. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
Yungaba House has now been converted for upmarket living. It sits just below the western end of the Story Bridge seen in my recent shot of the city of Brisbane. You can see the safety fence on the bridge above the roof of the centre. The building extends out of shot on the left, it's quite large. The city, on the other side of the river can be seen in the rear.
For those interested, this rather long Wiki article will take you through the lot.
The second part of the exhibition was aimed towards immigration into Germany.
"You will find yourself in the extension building in Germany - in a shop passage in 1973. Up-to-date daily newspapers are hanging in front of a kiosk. The headlines read: "Recruitment freeze in Germany", "No more guest workers to Germany". It was November 24, 1973, the day after foreign workers stopped recruiting. How was it in the Federal Republic that day? How important was the political decision for West German society and the people who had already immigrated?"
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Der zweite Teil der Ausstellung befasst sich mich der Einwanderung nach Deutschland.
Man kommt als erstes auf diesen Kiosk zu.
"Im Erweiterungsbau finden Sie sich in Deutschland wieder – in einer Ladenpassage im Jahr 1973. Vor einem Kiosk hängen gut sichtbar aktuelle Tageszeitungen. Die Schlagzeilen lauten: „Anwerbestopp in Deutschland“, „Keine Gastarbeiter mehr nach Deutschland“. Es ist der 24. November 1973, der Tag nach dem Anwerbestopp ausländischer Arbeitskräfte. Wie sah es in der Bundesrepublik an diesem Tag aus? Welche Bedeutung hatte die politische Entscheidung für die westdeutsche Gesellschaft und die bereits eingewanderten Menschen?"
Sometimes I think...we left the sun behind...immigrated...to have these little funny reflections of moonlight on dark dead stones...
sorry....rarely...
- a book project about the first immigrants in Ballerup. I have been allowed to contribute as a photographer in a book about immigration to Denmark, seen from a completely local perspective. When did people come, and why?
As the first strand of Donald Trump's new "comb-over economy" plan, the Republican presidential frontrunner released an immigration scheme that set a new low for unworkable slap-dash positions pandering to a small but hyperactive wing of a primary electorate -- in this case the GOP's Angry-Anglos-R-Us (AARU) wing.
Want proof? As major pillars, Mr. Trump's pie-in-the-sky scheme calls for:
1) Mexico to pay for a CA-to-TX border fence;
2) Until Mexico cries tÃo and antes up, we'll somehow seize and spend all Mexico-bound remittance payments to build the wall;
3) Meantime, no more new green cards;
4) And we'll immediately deport all undocumented folks;
5) For good measure, El Pompadour proposes to repeal the 14th Amendment promise of citizenship to folks born on U.S. soil. Hell, it's only been part of the Constitution since 1868.
So, halt at the red light. Turn left for Mexico if you're an illegal immigrant, or, if not, head right for the all-American Golden Arches under the light of liberty.
The Donald is watching.
And coming soon: The Donald pinata. www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/opinion/why-latino-children-ar...
Photorealism style after Richard Estes
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accross the wide ocean - june tabor
Immigration Hall on Ellis Island NYC
You cannot fail to be moved when walking this floor where millions have walked before seeking hope in the USA.
Donald Trump's immigration policy would effectively have barred his own grandfather. But then he is in denial as to where his inherited wealth came from and doesn't believe in paying his taxes. Hey! that's the American Way!!
Client: SBS
Agency: US Sydney
Production Company: Engine
Director:Simon Robson
US Sydney / Creatives:
Alex Tracy ( Account Director)
Josh Moore ( Executive Creative Director)
Nigel Clark ( Copywriter)
Tim Chenery ( Art Director)
Amelia Peacocke ( Producer)
Sacha Moore ( Agency Producer)
Corinne Porter ( Agency Producer)
Tim Stuart ( Account manager)
Animation Credits:
Executive Producer: Adam Wells
Typography: Luca @ Like Minded
Illustration: Pete J McDonald
Lead 2D animation: Robert Grieves
animation: Marko Pfann
3D: Shaun Schellings & Damien Mahoney
VFX artist: Lee Sandiford
Sound Design: Tone Aston @ Nylon