Immigration stations: The regulation and commemoration of mobility at Angel Island, San Francisco and Ellis Island, New York

Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 151-165

  Hoskins, Gareth ^a   Maddern, Jo Frances ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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