Samuel L Baily

Immigrants in the Lands of Promise

Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870-1914

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Baily views the migration process as a global phenomenon. Building on his richly documented case studies, the author briefly examines Italian communities in San Francisco, Toronto, and Sao Paulo. He establishes a continuum of immigrant adjustment in urban settings, creating a landmark study in both immigration and comparative history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780801488825
• ISBN-10: 0801488826
• Artikelnr.: 21969330

Autorenporträt

Samuel L. Baily is Professor of History at Rutgers University. Among his other books are Labor, Politics and Nationalism in Argentina, The United States and the Development of South America, and One Family, Two Worlds (with Franco Ramella).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Migration from a Participant Family's Perspective
Introduction: The Comparative Study of Transnational Italian Migration
PART I: THE ITALIAN DIASPORA AND THE OLD AND NEW WORLD CONTEXTS OF
MIGRATION
1. Italy and the Causes of Emigration
2. The Italian Migrations to Buenos Aires and New York City
3. What the Immigrants Found
PART II: THE ADJUSTMENT OF THE ITALIANS IN BUENOS AIRES AND NEW YORK CITY
4 Fare I America
5. Residence Patterns and Residential Mobility
6. Family, Household, and Neighborhood
7. Formal Institutions before the Mass Migration Era
8. Formal Institutions during the Mass Migration Era
9. Constructing a Continuum