.... Spiritually, the children of displaced parents inherited a crumbling homeland of the mind as a blurry origin. This research starts from a rhetorical analysis of abandoned places – Italian villages and the Ellis Island hospital – and, in parallel, considers poems by representative Italian-American poets...

...-mail: [email protected] 2017 disability immigration Ellis Island discrimination eugenics While race and gender are well-known categories in exploring immigration history, Douglas Baynton’s Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics presents...