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Italy’s Frustration and Disheartenment Quantified by Eurispes’ Latest Study

F. G.

The European Institute of Political, Economic and Social Studies’ 2012 Italy Report Shows a Discouraged Nation and a Youth Ready to Leave it Behind.

Honoring Italian emigrations after 150 years

Judith Harris

Italian emigration to the U.S. was fairly limited until 1870 and unification of Italy, but by 1900 the figure had risen to over 400,000, and in the decade after 1900 over...

Divinamente NYC: Meet Pamela Villoresi

Francesca Giuliani

The festival of art and spirituality is back in NYC: i-Italy interviews Pamela Villoresi, artistic director

Rethinking 150 Years

Joey Skee

The living links between Italian unification and Italian emigration.

Lo straniero (Part One)

Douglas Grant Mine

Journalist and novelist Douglas Grant Mine, a former correspondent for the AP who now lives in Italy with his family, tells the exhilarating, thought-provoking story of an...

Eugenio Balzan & Italian Immigration to Canada. A New Book by Corriere della Sera

Susannah Gold

A new work entitled, Corriere 1901, has been published by the Corriere della Sera foundation, edited by Renata Broggini, about a little explored chapter in Italian history,...

Why They Came – Italy’s Shame

Tom Verso

Americans of Italian descent should demand that Italy apologize for the dehumanization and exploitation of our grandparents and build memorials of contrition and appreciation to...

A Painful Piece of Italian History, Overlooked

Eleonora Mazzucchi

Italians living in the former Yugoslavia during the Second World War break the silence about the sorrow they endured and the massive flight they were forced to make. It is a...

Linking the Diaspora Cinematically

Joey Skee

Australia’s Federation of Italian Migrant Workers and their Families holds its “The Weird Mob 2: The Italian Invasion” Film Festival.

Cinema Piemonte on the Streets of San Francisco

Laura E. Ruberto

"Riso amaro" is screening in San Francisco soon, leading me to post about one of my favorite films.

The Immigrants’ Hardships and Good Fortune as Told through Song, Photos, and Narration

Anthony J. Tamburri

NYU’s Casa Italiana "Zerilli-Merimò". A review of the multi-media performance of Compagnie delle Acque, a socially committed musical quartet of piano, guitar, accordion, and...

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