Southern Italy (Mezzogiorno), the source of more than 75 percent of immigration to the United States, was an impoverished region possessing a highly stratified, virtually feudal society. The bulk of the population consisted of artisans (artigiani), petty landowners or sharecroppers (contadini), and...
1899-1914 – Italian immigration to Minnesota gets underway / Saint Paul’s Little Italy¹ develops Italian immigration to the United States began early in the 19th century, but of the six million Italians who came to America between 1820 and 1980, more than half arrived between 1899 and 191...
Where can I learn more about Italian immigration to the U.S.? There are many books written on this topic. “La Storia,”“Passage to Liberty,” and “Long Island Italians” are some of the books you can read to know more about Italian immigration in the 1800s. Do Italian Americans ...
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A Sicilian-American GI interprets; a local bigwig grasps a thread – he doesn’t know anyone by his name from his family’s home town – to disdain the entire enterprise. The bridge of cultures is immigration, the mutual understanding narrow and shaky, the lingering spell of dictatorship ...
If you have a favorite seat, do NOT go to Rome. The height of Italian linguistic skills here. January 22, 2015 in Language. Immigration is in my blood. Can expatriotism be genetic? A ponderous post from my stressful position in a Costa Rican hammock. Jealous yet? January 4, 2015 in...
The history of Panther Hollow,one of Pittsburgh’s first Italian neighborhoods, is the quintessential story of the immigration experience in America. Early settlers began arriving in the late 1800s, largely from the two small towns of Gamberale and Pizzoferrato – humble peasants in search of ho...
Moreover, differently than in the non-immigrant population, for which life satisfaction was primarily predicted by sociodemographic factors (primarily educational level), among immigrants life satisfaction was primarily predicted by immigration-related factors, such as having a partner living abroad and ...
Sixty-one Jewish women and thirty-nine Italian women were eventually interviewed at length by Coser, Anker and others; and their lives pre-immigration, and as daughters, wives and mothers in New York, an approximately sixty year period, are examined. The book is divided into two sections: ...
W ooden shacks in a field and a monument close to the Reggio Calabria-Salerno motorway; a plaque on a church in Holborn in London and a cross near a remote beach on a Scottish island; a debate over a plan to build a furniture store near Visco (Udine); walls and assorted buildings in...