Essay On Italian Immigration

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Italian immigration has major dates; those dates are 1880-1908. Many people decided to immigrate during this time. The total number of people that decided to immigrate is 5million people. The reason why they immigrated was for better opportunities for families, better jobs, and a better political life this would make it much easier and better for the Italian. They also wanted to come back to Italy with a great amount of money they were hoping to be rich by the time they came back to Italy. The Italian’s were convinced to move back to Italy because they wanted to bring back money for their families and to take care of their lives. There were many different ethnicities of people that immigrated. Chinese were one of the many people that immigrated. Italians had a problem with immigrating because as soon as they did they wouldn’t know the language or how things were where they were going. That makes it hard for them. Most of the Italians hadn’t planned on being in the U.S permanently. Italians have a specials phrase that was coined, that phrase is “Birds of Passage”.
Italian immigrants had a very hard time coping with the U.S because they weren’t settled in with the rest of the people. They weren’t clear on how to understand how the people in the U.S lived and worked and understood meanings. Immigration in the United States is extremely important. Many of the immigrants came from many different countries; Italy was one of those countries. Italy has helped the United States throughout the years, without them we wouldn’t have the items that we have now. Some of these items are some fashion, toys, religion, and many types of foods for example spaghetti, pizza, and bread. These are some of the foods that they sold in stores and restauran...

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...r country behind now. Their political problems are over, the government in Italy has overcome their problems and do not abuse their people now.
Mostly men immigrated to America. They did hard labor work to become rich. They then returned to their country to get their families. The families wouldn’t see the men for long periods of time, they would mourn for their loved ones.
The major immigration dates were between 1990 and 2004 when there was a major increase in the population size. The immigration of the Italians soared from 780,000 to over two million or more in just that decade and a half. This cause was the war and their political life back home. Some examples of immigration statistics are: 2000- 473,338 1990- 580,592 1980- 831,922 1970- 1,008,533 1960- 1,256,999 1950- 1,790, 429 1940- 1,610,113 1930- 1,343,125 1920- 484,027 1910- 182,580.

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