ITAL 20X Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Little Italy, Italian Identity, Making Money
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Italy: a history of migration: only recently italy is a country of immigration; used to be emigration. Italians leaving italy for good; didn"t think they"d return communities bc want to keep traditions and don"t speak americas languages: 1880s: permanent wave; 1920s: temporary italians make $ in americas. & canada, send $ home, and want to return to italy. Immigration preferred way to improve italian standard of living but not welcome usually: many immigrants at once competing for same jobs- discrimination, political & religious opposition to emigration: people didn"t like italians leaving. 1920s: mussolini made laws to restrict emigration bc didn"t want healthy, young males to leave bc who would fight for the country wants to conquer the world. Italian leave for americas but in smaller numbers- went to northern italy & Internal migration worked bc italians willing to leave country (part of culture, long history of migration: economically driven: new factories in n italy (esp for cars) employed.
