Italy

Crimes of Peace: Mediterranean Migrations at the World’s Deadliest Border

Sabina Perrino of Binghamton University reviews Crimes of Peace: Mediterranean Migrations at the World’s Deadliest Border by Maurizio Albahari. In Crimes of Peace, Albahari investigates why the Mediterranean Sea is the world’s deadliest border, and what alternatives could improve this state of affairs....

Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe

Madeline Y. Hsu, Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, reviews Transnational Chinese: Fujianese Migrants in Europe. The book is about Chinese migrants from Mingxi and Fuqing who migrated to Italy, Hungary, Denmark, Britain, and the United...

What Can Be Done to Help Them?: The Italian Saint Raphael Society, 1887-1923

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...

Vibrant Life: 1886-1942 Trenton’s Italian Americans

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;...

Valiant Struggles and Benign Neglect: Italians, Church, and Religious Societies in Diaspora: The Australian Experience from 1950 to 2000

This study, based on both published and unpublished material, delves into the dynamic and ongoing interaction between Italian Migrants, the Catholic Church, and Religious Societies that have emerged in many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...

Studies on Italian-American Literature

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...

Struggle and Success: An Anthology of the Italian Immigrant Experience in California

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...

The Scalabrinians in North America (1887-1934)

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,...

Portrait of an Italian-American Neighborhood: The North End of Boston

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...

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...