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People in Upheaval

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...

Pacific Bridges: The New Immigration from Asia and the Pacific Islands

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...

Organizing the Ethnic Community: An Account of the Origin, History and Development of the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans (1952-1995)

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...

On the Threshold of the People’s Home of Sweden: A Labor Perspective of Baltic Refugees and Relieved Polish Concentration Camp Prisoners in Sweden at the End of World War II

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...

Mother Cabrini, “Italian Immigrant of the Century”

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...

Missionaries On the Move: A Pastoral History of the Scalabrinians in Australia and Asia 1952-2002

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...

Migration, Religious Experience, and Globalization

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...

A Migrant Missionary Story: The Autobiography of Giacomo Gambera

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...

Lucky Corner: The Biography of Congressman Alfred E. Santangelo and the Rise of Italian Americans in Politics

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...

John Baptist Scalabrini, Apostle to Emigrants

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...