BY: Mary Brown
After World War II, Italy found itself on the front of a new struggle, to resettle civilians whose lives had been disrupted by war. Italy’s experience contributed to an understanding of the role migration could play in promoting both individual and national economic security, and the security not only of a struggling nation that could not employ its own people but of a developed nation in need of new workers and new markets.
As Allied troops fought their way across the island of Sicily and then up the Italian peninsula, behind them came organizations whose workers sanitized the water supply, distributed food and clothing, provided medical care, sheltered the homeless, and restarted local economies. One such organization was American Relief for Italy (ARI).
SOURCE: http://cmsny.org/
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