Angel Island Mosaic uplifts the individual stories of immigrants who were detained on Angel Island.
Between 1910 and 1940, over 550,000 people arrived in the United States through the Port of San Francisco. The US government used discriminatory immigration laws to detain over 300,000 of these new arrivals at the Angel Island Immigration Station.
While their time at the immigration station was significant, the stories of these immigrants do not begin or end with their experience in detention. Angel Island Mosaic illuminates the rich personal narratives of people who were detained on Angel Island.
Their diverse stories reveal how race, class, and gender intersected with historical events in the early 20th century to shape both the immigration process and life in the US after.
