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From Immigrants to Ethnics

Author : Humbert S. Nelli

Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 10,25 MB

Release : 1983

Category : Drama

ISBN : 9780195032000

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Presents an accurate and balanced picture of the Italian experience in America.



New Italian Migrations to the United States

Author : Laura E Ruberto

Publisher : University of Illinois Press

Page : 301 pages

File Size : 42,50 MB

Release : 2017-03-22

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0252099494

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Italian immigration from 1945 to the present is an American phenomenon too little explored in our historical studies. Until now. In this new collection, Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra edit essays by an elite roster of scholars in Italian American studies. These interdisciplinary works focus on leading edge topics that range from politics of the McCarren-Walter Act and its effects on women to the ways Italian Americans mobilized against immigration restrictions. Other essays unwrap the inner workings of multi-ethnic power brokers in a Queens community, portray the complex transformation of identity in Boston’s North End, and trace the development of Italian American youth culture and how new arrivals fit into it. Finally, Donna Gabaccia pens an afterword on the importance of this seventy-year period in U.S. migration history. Contributors: Ottorino Cappelli, Donna Gabaccia, Stefano Luconi, Maddalena Marinari, James S. Pasto, Rodrigo Praino, Laura E. Ruberto, Joseph Sciorra, Donald Tricarico, and Elizabeth Zanoni.



The Italian Emigration of Our Times

Author : Robert Franz Foerster

Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press ; London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press

Page : 592 pages

File Size : 47,81 MB

Release : 1919

Category : Italy

ISBN :

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Italians Swindled to New york

Author : Joe Tucciarone

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 200 pages

File Size : 26,87 MB

Release : 2014-01-28

Category : History

ISBN : 1439673276

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The unification of Italy in 1861 launched a new European nation promising to fulfill the dreams of Italians, yet millions of poor peasants still found themselves in economic desperation. By 1872, an army of speculators had invaded the countryside, hawking steamship tickets and promising fabulous riches in America. Thousands of immigrants fled to the New World, only to be abandoned upon arrival and forced to find work in hard labor. New York placed victims of deception at the State Emigrant Refuge on Ward's Island as the secretary of state and the Italian prime minister sought to intervene. Through steel-eyed determination, many surmounted their status and became leaders in business and culture. Authors Joe Tucciarone and Ben Lariccia follow the early stages of mass Italian immigration and the fraudulent circumstances that brought them to New York Harbor.