Sunday, January 11, 2004

8:30–10:30 a.m.

131.Between Exclusion and Inclusion: Immigrant Medical Inspection in Argentina, the United States, and Israel
Marriott, Marriott Ballroom Balcony D

Chair: Gerald E. Markowitz, John Jay College of the City University of New York
Papers:

Innoculating against “Barbarism”: Medical Inspection and the Argentine Immigrant Boom, 1880–1916
Julia Rodriguez, University of New Hampshire at Durham

Terms of Inclusion: Rethinking the Meaning of U.S. Immigration Policy in the Progressive Era
Amy L. Fairchild, Columbia University

Health and Hegemony: Medical Inspection, Immigrants, and the Israeli Melting Pot, 1948–56
Nadav Davidovitch, Ben Gurion University of Negev
Comment: Nancy Leys Stepan, Columbia University