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@article{ Maddern2008,
 title = {Spectres of migration and the ghosts of Ellis Island},
 author = {Maddern, Jo Frances},
 journal = {Cultural Geographies},
 number = {3},
 pages = {359-381},
 volume = {15},
 year = {2008},
 doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474008091332},
 urn = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-232193},
 abstract = {This article is based on in-depth interviews carried out with producers involved in                the restoration of Ellis Island Immigration Station, New York and those responsible                for turning it into a successful national heritage site which opened to the public                in 1990. The buildings on Ellis Island operated as an Immigration Station between                approximately 1892 and 1924 during which time they processed over 16 million                migrants of predominantly European origin. An analysis of interviews conducted as                well as readings of Ellis Island taken from archives, folklore and US popular                culture suggest that the site is imbued with the spectropolitics of its politically                emotive immigrant processing past. Rather than dismissing the spectrality associated                with Ellis Island as folkloric or irrational, the article attempts to untangle the                different meanings attributed to the `ghosts' that circulate through the buildings                and material objects that inhabit the island. It suggests that a number of `tropes'                of ghostliness can be associated with the island; uncanny ghosts which defy the                sanitizing force of the restoration; conjured ghosts, which are deliberately invoked                by producers for various political and economic purposes, and the ghosts of                deconstruction which make any meta-narrative of immigration history at Ellis Island                a precarious if not troubling achievement.},
 keywords = {migration; Migration}}