With each passing year, more immigrants are coming to Italy in search of a new home. In an effort to better integrate them into Italy's multi-faceted, democratic society, the Government of Italy has created the Migrants' Integration Portal, an online resource that engages immigrants from 16 key nations with useful information and services relating...

One of the personalities I recently interviewed asked me if I wanted to look for Italian traces in every one of the 50 States. I answered that maybe I would have, and started to think about the one State where maybe it would have been more difficult to do that. Maybe Hawaii, I thought. But then no: Italians have been and are everywhere in the world...

"La simbolica data d'inizio dell'emigrazione italiana nelle Americhe può essere considerata il 4 ottobre 1852, quando venne fondata a Genova la Compagnia Transatlantica per la navigazione a vapore con le Americhe. Fra il 1880 e il 1915 approdano negli Stati Uniti quattro milioni di italiani, su 9 milioni circa di emigranti che scelsero di attravers...

"Associazionismo e italiani nel mondo: rapporti e prospettive" è il tema del convegno che si terrà martedì prossimo, 11 giugno, dalle ore 10.30 alle 14.00, presso la Sala delle Colonne della Camera dei Deputati, in Via Poli.   Introdotto – e organizzato – dall'on. Fucsia Nissoli (Scelta Civica), l'incontro prevede i saluti del senatore Mario...

by David W. Dunlap   Everywhere in America, immigration is an unending story. Everywhere, that is, except at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, where the story ends in 1954, when the immigrant processing and detention station there was closed.   Next month, however, the museum will leap more than 60 years forward with the opening of...

More than 100 migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast by the Italian Navy. Footage of the rescue operation was released by the Navy on Thursday (December 24). It showed armed officers on board navy vessels, approaching a rubber dinghy filled with migrants. The officers could be seen trying to calm down the migrants, and throwing life v...

Italian immigrants to Chicago faced many drastic changes in their environments and way of life. The bustling new metropolis was very different from an Italian rural village. The mass of new Italian immigrants who entered the city in the late nineteenth century, primarily men from the small towns surrounding Palermo, Sicily were either single or had...

by Eric Brightwell Los Angeles and Orange Counties are home to many official and unofficial (but widely recognized) ethnic enclaves, including Cambodia Town, Chinatown, Historic Filipinotown, Koreatown, Little Armenia, Little Arabia, Little Bangladesh, Little Ethiopia, Little India, Little Osaka, Little Saigon, Little Seoul, Little Tokyo, Oaxacato...

by Irene Marcuzzi   My name is Irene Marcuzzi and in collaboration with the organization "Friuli nel Mondo" I am trying to reach out to any Italian born in Friuli Venezia Giulia that lives in Michigan or in the surrounding area. Friuli nel Mondo was created in 1953, to assist Friulians in foreign countries and to coordinate the activities o...

There is a new wave of Immigration from Italy to the US. Are young people immigrating for the same reasons that their grandparents did?   How is this different from the turn of the century? Are the trades different or the same? Take this journey with Michele Petruzziello (photographer).   Read more   Source: http://www.iic...