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At the time of writing, approximately one-fourth of Chinese immigrants and refugees were children and youths under 19 years of age. The Adjustment Experience of Chinese Immigrant Children in New York City focuses on these young people as they are............

American Catholicism and European Immigrants describes Catholic social settlements, Catholic participation in the postwar “Americanization” drive, and Catholic attitudes toward immigrant restriction. The author concludes that the American Church did relatively little to educate the foreigner or significantly aid in............

The Assimilation of Ethnic Groups: The Italian Case presents a brief overview of the Italian experience in the “Old” and the “New” Country. The major portion of the book deals with the degree to which Italian Americans have departed from............

As part of the study of the “new immigration,” scholars have acknowledged, but little studied, the Greek immigration to the United States from 1890-1921. Two important factors that led to the neglect of this subject were linguistic inability and unavailability............

In Brazilians Away From Home, Teresa Sales reports the results of her study of Brazilian immigrants who live in Framingham, Massachusetts. Professor Sales skillfully combines a scholar’s perspective with the personal warmth she finds so characteristic of her fellow Brazilians............

Caribbean Circuits is inspired by the adage that “the essence of Caribbean life has always been movement.” Drawing upon research in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti, and the United States, the volume’s contributors present innovative ways of re-conceptualizing and studying............

With a focus on sociocultural dimensions of Caribbean life in New York, this book addresses a topic that has been relatively neglected in the many recent (relative to the time of publication) studies of Caribbean immigrants. These studies have been............

Chaldean Americans is an analysis of a small but important ethnic minority. Particularly in the last 30 years of the twentieth century, Chaldeans are illustrative of the impact of the influx of the new immigrant wave which followed the change............

Chinese American Intermarriage is a sociological study of the phenomenon of intermarriage based upon the Chinese American experience in New York City. This book shows how family objection is the worst obstacle, how spousal relations are affected by cultural differences,............

Churches, Communities, and Children tells two parallel stories. The first is that of the generations-long process by which Italian immigrants became Italian American Catholics. The second story is that of how the Archdiocese of New York adapted to its increasingly............

This extraordinary volume contains the proceedings of an international conference held during the 1992 Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Jubilee. Focusing on the role of the Italian presence in the formation and development of countries in North America, South America, and Australia,............

What characterizes this book on Arab immigration and ethnicity is the author’s skill in tying together the general facts of Syrian emigration at the the turn of the twentieth century with the broader historical realities of Western colonialism and American............

Contested Citizenship sets out to contribute to the understanding of the relationship between the state and immigrant integration processes in post-colonial Portuguese society. More specifically, it seeks to show the role of state policies and discourses in shaping immigrants’ political............

In this story of his life, the internationally known artist, Alfred D. Crimi “had something to say and said it without reservations.” Almost a whole century comes alive in Crimi’s autobiography that reveals in depth the effects of immigration upon............

Based on aggregate macro-level data on all reported foreign-born persons, The Demographics of Immigration highlights shifts in the character of immigration into New York State since 1965; draws a demographic and socio-economic profile of its foreign-born residents; compares and contrasts............

This directory brings together in a single volume a worldwide collection of information on migration study centers, research programs, and library resources. The project to compile a world directory was undertaken with three goals in mind: to facilitate the exchange............

In this text building on two previous CMS directories, the Center for Migration Studies of New York decided to develop an up-to-date and comprehensive Directory of all Italian and Italian American Associations within the Italian Consular District of New York.............

The primary purpose of Ethnic Business Enterprise is to explain the tendency of Korean immigrants toward small business and self-employment. The secondary purpose of this book is to look at various minority business theories in light of the Korean case.............

European Immigrants and the Catholic Church in Connecticut, 1870-1920, addresses the question: how does a predominantly Irish-American Church in Connecticut accommodate to the massive immigration of Southern and Eastern European Catholics during the four decades surrounding the 20th century (1880-1920)?............

This brief autobiography gives us an insight into the deep spirituality, the devoted love for Christ, and the filial devotion to Our Lady that made Father Pio the dedicated and exemplary priest he was during the sixty-nine years of his............

Filipinos Overseas: A Bibliography documents the research status, at the time of publication, of the study of overseas Filipinos. The 1232 entries of this bibliography are arranged topically and geographically. Within set minor limitations, this bibliography stands as an impressive............

For the Love of Immigrants contains the migration writings and the correspondence with American bishops, here translated into English for the first time, of blessed John Baptist Scalabrini, who championed the cause of immigrants during the mass exodus from Italy............

With this folio-sized volume, Schiavo offers a source book, or an outline of the history of the Italians in America, to serve as a guide to writers of American history in general, and as an incentive to other investigators; for............

Our Lady of Pompei began as a chapel serving Italians in transit through New York Harbor. It anchored a community of Genoan Immigrants in Greenwich Village, and assisted Italian-born parents in raising their American-born offspring in this new environment. Since............

Completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 spurred the construction of new rail lines throughout the upper Midwest, linking mines and factories with both coasts. From Steel Tracks to Gold-Paved Streets documents the presence of substantial numbers of Italians in............

From Steerage to Suburb represents the first major effort to analyze the social history of one of the major immigrant groups in American suburbia. Demographic and economic data on Long Island Italians used here were culled from available public records............

The papers in this volume (arranged into three sections) were originally presented at an international conference on international migration, held at Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy in June 1979. The papers reflect the diverse opinions of............

Holden’s Staten Island presents the story of New York City’s fifth and sometimes forgotten borough: from the days of Leni Lenape Native Americans to the building of the Verrazano Bridge. This is a work of high scholarship and at the............

How does one fare in a world marked by rapid and profound transformations? How does one build a firm and credible identity in a context of uncertainty and cultural pluralism? The transition of society from traditional, to modern, to postmodern............

The new edition of IMAGES has been expanded and updated with more than 60 photographs in  full color. This beautifully appointed bilingual edition sets out to explore through the medium of photography the Italian immigrant and ethnic experience in the............

How will the growing presence of Mexican school-age children affect public education?, is a question addressed in the book Immigrants and Schooling. The authors present a collection of essays exploring the migration and community backgrounds of Mexicans arriving to the............

The papers in this volume examine selected aspects of immigration to the United States in its socio-historical context as well as the policies by which the United States has responded to immigration over time. These papers focus on the development............

Part I of this book includes four original essays focusing on the pastoral responses of the Catholic Church to contemporary (relative to the time of publication) immigration. Part II contains four original papers on a range of ongoing research addressing............

Following major intergovernmental events on migration and development in the past years, the Center for Migration Studies (CMS) in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) organized a conference in New York on January 17-18, 2008, the outcome of............

International Migration and the Global Community is the outcome of a one-day forum held on October 26, 2005 to consider and discuss the recommendations of the Global Commission on International Migration and their implications. This publication includes the papers prepared............

International Migration, Refugee Flows and Human Rights in North America concerns the ways in which North America is responding to globalization and associated patterns of inequality, social conflict, and international migration. The book concentrates on particularly important dimensions of the............

The series draws on contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in the field. Joseph Chamie, the former director of the United Nations Population Division and former editor of the International Migration Review, provides a magisterial overview of migration flows to and within the Americas over the last 525 years, with particular focus on the United States and the territory that became the United States. He also highlights several themes that weave through this long history. Charles Wheeler, a senior attorney and director of training and legal support for the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), provides a concise and timely history of US immigration law and policy, starting in the colonial era and leading to the current impasse on immigration reform. Sara Campos, a freelance writer and the former director of the Asylum Program for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco, writes a groundbreaking chapter on the growing role of civil society in the US immigrant communities and in the US immigration debate. All three chapters, as well as an introduction by Mr. Kerwin, speak very directly to the US immigration debate....

On the basis of published and unpublished U.S. census data, this volume offers for the first time a comparison between immigrants and native-born, and Italians of early and late generation. Four specialists analyze in detail: demographic and cultural aspects, education,............

A moving blend of words and images, this book tells the story of the journey to America across seven generations of one Italian-American family. Drawing on a remarkable collection of raw material – fragments of family letters, stories, diaries, and............

Italian-Americans and Religion marks the first time an extensive survey of published and unpublished material dealing with the religious experience of Italians in the United States has been undertaken. This annotated bibliography includes material covering the three major periods of............

A magazine which served as a significant clearinghouse for the thinking and programs of social and settlement workers throughout the United States during the early 20th century was Charities. The 39 selections, by nearly as many different authors, reprinted in............

Italian Fascist Activities in the United States is a previously unpublished study of the major organizations, methods, and personalities in the Italian Fascist movement in the United States from 1922 to 1936, by one of the leading figures in the............

This study examines Italian repatriation from the United States between 1900 and 1914. Although Italians, as well as Greeks, Germans and Britons, left America in large numbers at different times, their re-emigration has escaped extensive study by historians, economists, and............

John Baptist Scalabrini and Italian Migration traces the history of the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo-Scalabrinians back to its origins during the second half of the nineteenth century, and then to follow the course of its............

The purpose of this biography is to provide a substantially complete documentation of the thought, the work, and, above all, the spirituality of John Baptist Scalabrini. The main goal of this work was to present the essential traits of Scalabrini’s............

Lucky Corner tells the story of Alfred E. Santangelo (1912-1978), who represented New York City’s upper east side, including East Harlem, in the New York State Senate and in the United States Congress from 1947 to 1963. Written by his............

This English translation of the autobiography of Giacomo Gambera (1856-1934) provides insight into his life. Besides recalling his reactions to specific events, Gambera included in his memoirs the details of everyday situations. Thus, although he was a community leader, his............

The present volume is a collection of some of the main talks and workshops presented during the First Conference on Migration and Theology entitled Migration and Religious Experience in the Context of Globalization, which took place in Tijuana (Mexico) from............

Mary Elizabeth Brown of Marymount Manhattan College reviews Missionaries On the Move: A Pastoral History of the Scalabrinians in Australia and Asia 1952-2002 by Desmond Cahill. This book presents a history of the Scalabrinians in Australia and Asia over a fifty year............

The purpose of this book is to provide readers with the first well-documented account of Mother Cabrini and her work among Italian immigrants in the United States from 1889 to 1917, and to show how, with the collaboration of her............

This study is part of a research project on the history of the Swedish agricultural workers. Beside demonstrating and analyzing the everyday life of many refugees in Sweden, this study is an attempt to broaden and deepen labor history in............

Organizing the Ethnic Community recounts the efforts of one Italian-American organization to establish a social-action program in the Chicago Metropolitan area. It is hoped that this report may serve as a guide for other Italian Americans in other cities, and............

This book is designed to fill the gap in comprehensive publications on contemporary immigration flows in the Asian and Pacific region. The four chapters composing Part I, Factors Influencing International Migration Flows, provide a general framework within which subsequent chapters............

The essays in this volume are the outcome of a year-long seminar given in the department of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley from 1983 to 1984, led by Professors Elizabeth Colson and George DeVos, and attended by Professor............

To consider the interplay of near-poverty life and ethnic pride is the purpose of this volume. The essays prepared for this publication reflect a wide range of experiences and opinions. The language is different, sometimes scholarly and sometimes abrupt and............

This book presents a comprehensive look at the Pilipino immigration experience to the United States. The Pilipinos in America tells who the immigrants are before they migrated, and why they migrated to the U.S. It does more than just examine............

This second edition offers a time series of data on the movements and characteristics of migrants, as well as a comparison of migration policies by which countries respond to their demographic realities. Prepared by 22 international scholars, the works presented............

The present volume adds to the concern with return migration in the context of the time of publication. The close to forty papers on the subject included in this volume address return migration in Europe, especially in the present and............

In spite of the particularities of the region, and their potential for informing theory and methodology, the Middle East has been underrepresented in comparative studies of displacement and refugees. The papers collected in this volume aim to partially address the............

This book has three objectives. Firstly, to analyze the root causes and manifestations of recent population displacements in the Sudan. Secondly, to investigate how displaced households cope with their plight. Thirdly, to investigate the scope and impact of policies adopted............

Portrait of an Italian-American Neighborhood is a social history of one of the last intact Italian-American neighborhoods in the United States. It is the result of many years of collecting first-hand information from hundreds of oral interviews with Italian immigrants............

This bibliography, a byproduct of years of extensive research in the history of Portuguese immigration to the United States, is believed to be nearly exhaustive in its listings of books and articles, as far as are accessible in American libraries............

This book is a historical narrative of the Society of Saint Charles-Scalabrinians in North America, a community of religious dedicated to ministering to migrants and refugees, from their inception in 1887 to their adoption of simple perpetual vows in 1934,............

Smokestacks Allegro is the first major work published about the Solvay Process Company – one of America’s pioneer science-based industries and predecessor of Allied Chemical Corporation, a forerunner of Allied-Signal. This book, partially based on oral history, describes how at............

Struggle and Success presents an overview of the Italian immigrant experience in California. Drawing on original research and previously published, but generally unavailable material, the volume covers, wherever possible, all parts of the state and documents individual successes as well............

Studies on Italian-American Literature contains nine original, thought-provoking essays on some of the most important authors and issues of Italian American literature. What’s important about these essays is the cultural context that Mulas creates for his readings. His familiarity with............

During her 1890 trip to the United States, Mother Cabrini began the custom of writing letters to her sisters in the form of a travel diary. These letters appear here in chronological order in a new English translation. They show............

This book presents research on the undocumented migrant population in New York. The results of this research have allowed both an in-depth look at the goals and motivations of the immigrant households and the individual immigrants and a glimpse of............

This study, based on both published and unpublished material, delves into the dynamic and ongoing interaction between Italian Migrants, the Catholic Church, and Religious Societies that have emerged in many countries as a result of more than a century of............

After providing a general overview of the emigration of Italians to Trenton, New Jersey, Vibrant Life examines various aspects of the lives of Italian immigrants in Trenton – and their offspring – including employment; education; establishment of churches and organizations;............

This book, A Vision Unfolding: The Scalabrinians in North America (1888-1988), looks into the interaction of immigrants and religion from the perspective of a case history, that of the Missionaries of St. Charles-Scalabrinians, a group of religious men active among............

Walk the halls of Ellis Island with the immigrants and those seeking to help them. Historian Edward Stibili has produced the definitive account of the Saint Raphael Society for the Protection of Italian Immigrants. This pioneering organization was founded to............

This text features nine new studies on inter-American labor migration and refugee movements. Authored by a distinguished group of Latin American and Caribbean scholars, the studies examine major international migration trends in these regions. The collection brings new voices into............

The title of the present work, Whom Have We Welcomed?, gives promise of exploring what has happened under the Immigration Act of October 3, 1965, but actually the work is better described by its subtitle, for it looks more toward............