Italian Immigration and the United States of America

Italian immigrants and the USA Today, we live in a world where some people have begun to understand all these causes. Many different small contributions have accumulated over the years to create "today" in the United States. There are not as important elements as the next element, but today there are some elements that will have bigger and longer lasting influences. Immigration and racial discrimination play the most important role in changing American society. In 1917, the United States entered World War I.

Since 1890, Italian immigrants to the United States became part of the third largest immigrant in Europe, the so-called "new immigrants" composed of Slavs, Jews, Italians. This "new immigrant" is a major change from the "old immigrants" including German, Irish, British, Scandinavian and occurred through the 19th century. Between 1900 and 1915, three million Italians migrated to the United States. This is the largest nationality of "new immigrants". These immigrants, principally craftsmen and farmers, represent all the regions of Italy, but they originate mainly from Mezzojorno in Southern Italy. Between 1876 and 1930, 4 out of 5 million immigrants from the United States came from the south, representing Calabria, Campania, Abruzzo, Molise and Sicily. Almost (2/3 of immigrant population) is agricultural workers or workers, or contadini.

1913 was the highest record of the American immigrants of the Italian citizens. Most of these immigrants come from northern Italy, but immigrants coming from the south are increasing. Italy has numerous immigrants, so Italians are an important part of the labor service organization in the United States. It occupies the majority of the three major labor for manufacturing mining, textiles and apparel. In fact, Italians are the largest immigrants working in the mine. In 1910, 20,000 Italians were hired in Massachusetts and Rhode Island factories.

In America, the majority of anti - Italian hostility is directed to southern Italian and Sicilian, and began immigrating to America since 1880. Prior to this, there were relatively few Italians in North America. According to the Anglo-Saxon standards, immigrants from Southern Italy and Sicily are not considered wholly white, and as two different Caucasian groups the concept strengthened by the US Immigration Bureau to classify the northern and southern Italy is. In response to mass immigration from Southern Europe and Eastern Europe, Congress passed the law (Emergency Allocation Act of 1921 and Immigration Act of 1924) to restrict immigration from these areas, but in Scandinavia Banned immigration from countries.