En quarantaine pendant la guerre froide : Norbert Wollheim et la détention sur Ellis Island

Immigration bureaucracies have long maintained special territories, sometimes detaining newcomers for months and even years. One such territory, the iconic Ellis Island in the New York harbor, has since the 1920s served as a place to hold America's foreign-born radicals and the departure point...

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Autor principal:	Jan Lambertz
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Publicado:	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2016
Materias:	Cold War deportation Ellis Island immigration Wollheim Norbert Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:7c764e661f334037a699e68447495cbf2021-12-02T10:33:26ZEn quarantaine pendant la guerre froide : Norbert Wollheim et la détention sur Ellis Island1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.68952https://doaj.org/article/7c764e661f334037a699e68447495cbf2016-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/68952https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252Immigration bureaucracies have long maintained special territories, sometimes detaining newcomers for months and even years. One such territory, the iconic Ellis Island in the New York harbor, has since the 1920s served as a place to hold America's foreign-born radicals and the departure point for many deportations. Long periods of detention both disrupted and reinforced the identities of prospective immigrants. This article scrutinizes the experiences of Norbert Wollheim, held as a suspected subversive on the island at the beginning of the Cold War, just a few months after a U.S. federal court sentenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for espionage. The case of Wollheim, a survivor of Auschwitz and former Jewish community leader in West Germany, reveals a punitive chapter in U.S. immigration policy following World War II, with inclusion and exclusion in a tense, perpetual partnership. At the same this bittersweet story illuminates how this one "territory of waiting" at the mouth of the Hudson River ironically offered a special vantage point for understanding American life and culture in the mid-twentieth century.Jan LambertzCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticleCold WardeportationEllis IslandimmigrationWollheimNorbertAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2016)
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description	Immigration bureaucracies have long maintained special territories, sometimes detaining newcomers for months and even years. One such territory, the iconic Ellis Island in the New York harbor, has since the 1920s served as a place to hold America's foreign-born radicals and the departure point for many deportations. Long periods of detention both disrupted and reinforced the identities of prospective immigrants. This article scrutinizes the experiences of Norbert Wollheim, held as a suspected subversive on the island at the beginning of the Cold War, just a few months after a U.S. federal court sentenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death for espionage. The case of Wollheim, a survivor of Auschwitz and former Jewish community leader in West Germany, reveals a punitive chapter in U.S. immigration policy following World War II, with inclusion and exclusion in a tense, perpetual partnership. At the same this bittersweet story illuminates how this one "territory of waiting" at the mouth of the Hudson River ironically offered a special vantage point for understanding American life and culture in the mid-twentieth century.
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En quarantaine pendant la guerre froide : Norbert Wollheim et la détention sur Ellis Island

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