Ellis Island Immigration Museum

The Ellis Island Effect

Objectives: Bacteroides fragilis, a Gram-negative anaerobic bacterium, is alternately a gut commensal or virulent pathogen and is an important reservoir for horizontal gene transfer (HGT) of bacterial resistance and virulence genes in the human gastrointestinal tract. We identified a unique conjugative transposon (CTn) in a multidrug resistant clinical isolate of B. fragilis (BF-HMW615); we nam...

A Psychological Study of Immigrant Children at Ellis Island

From Ellis Island to assisted living: meeting the needs of older adults from diverse cultures.

Among the rapidly increasing population of older adults, the minority elderly have also been increasing in numbers and are projected to grow at a more rapid rate than the white population well into the next century (American Association of Retired Persons, 1989). This factor, together with the existence of substantial ethnic diversity among both white and minority elders, mandates that our prof...

Two cases of Ellis-van Creveld syndrome in a small island population.

Two individuals showing features typical of the autosomal recessive Ellis-van Creveld syndrome have been diagnosed in a population of 1340 individuals living on a small island off the west coast of Scotland. Clinical features and family relationships of the affected individuals are described.

From Ellis Island to LAX: immigrant prospects in the American city.

"This article seeks to bring the ¿urban' back into immigration research. Each immigrant receiving area has its own particular group of newcomers, and the economic and political structures of the immigrant receiving areas are also distinctive. Those structures are not all determining, as immigrant trajectories are shaped by the interaction between distinctive urban institutions and the specific ...