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An American teacher who had studied in Italy, Sarah Wool Moore, was so concerned with grifters luring immigrants into rooming houses or employment contracts in which the bosses got kickbacks that she pressed for the founding of the Society for the Protection of Italian Immigrants (often called the Society for Italian Immigrants). The society ...
Shortly after the American Civil War, some states started to pass their own immigration laws, which prompted the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in 1875 that immigration was a federal responsibility. [50] In 1875, the nation passed its first immigration law, the Page Act of 1875 , also known as the Asian Exclusion Act.
Italian immigrants to South America have also brought a presence of the language to that continent. According to some sources, Italian is the second most spoken language in Argentina [256] after the official language of Spanish, although its number of speakers, mainly of the older generation, is decreasing.
In 1870, prior to the large wave of Italian immigrants to the United States, there were fewer than 25,000 Italian immigrants in America, many of them Northern Italian refugees from the wars that accompanied the Risorgimento—the struggle for Italian reunification and independence from foreign rule which ended in 1870. Immigration began to ...
The term "Italian American" does not have a legal definition. It is generally understood to mean ethnic Italians of American nationality, whether Italian-born immigrants to the United States (naturalized or unnaturalized) or American-born people of Italian descent (natural-born U.S. citizens). The term "enemy alien" has a legal definition.
The Avellino family emigrated from a poverty-stricken Italian island in the early 20th century. But now they’re back – and living in their ancestral cave home.
"Neither Padrone Slaves nor Primitive Rebels: Sicilians on Two Continents." in Dirk Hoerder, ed., Struggle a Hard Battle": Essays on Working-Class Immigrants (1986) pp 113+ Harney, Robert F. "The Padrone and the Immigrant," Canadian Review of American Studies (1974) 5#2 pp 101–118; Nelli. Humbert S. "The Italian padrone system in the United ...
The final phase of colonial immigration, from 1760 to 1820, became dominated by free settlers and was marked by a huge increase in British immigrants to North America and the United States in particular. In that period, 871,000 Europeans immigrated to the Americas, of which over 70% were British (including Irish in that category).