poverty – NewYorkScapes https://newyorkscapes.org NewYorkScapes is a research community dedicated to exploring the literary, historical, and social aspects of the city of New York using digital forms of scholarship. Sat, 15 Dec 2018 03:56:42 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Immigrant Second Generation in Metropolitan New York https://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/100012/ Sun, 07 Jan 2018 21:37:45 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=dataset&p=628 This dataset pertains to individuals between the ages of 18 and 32, from immigrant families, and residing in New York city and a selection of surrounding areas. It examines the success or complication of assimilation of immigrants and children from families that immigrated from a number of countries including the former Soviet Union, Taiwan, Ecuador, Peru, and the West Indies.

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]]> Digital Almshouse Project https://newyorkscapes.org/project/digital-almshouse-project/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:52:28 +0000 http://newyorkscapes.org/project/digital-almshouse-project/ The Digital Almshouse Project captures the experiences of Irish-born patients admitted to New York’s Bellevue Almshouse between 1845 and 1852. In addition to tracing Irish-born Bellevue patients’ journeys through New York’s public health system, it also includes background on nineteenth-century immigration to New York City, a history of New York Public Health, descriptions of the population of…

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