Book
From Italy to San Francisco: the immigrant experience
Stanford University Press • Stanford, California • Published In 1982 • Pages:
By: Cinel, Dino.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the local social history of Italians who immigrated to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and of the many cultural changes they had to endure as the result of this migration. The document is divided into two parts. Part 1 explores why emigration was common in some provinces of Italy and not in others. Here Cinel deals with the number of emigrants and how the number varied over time. This part of the study also follows the course of return migration, and assesses the significance of this movement in the light of the broad socioeconomic dynamics of Italian society. In the second part, Cinel deals with changes that the Italian immigrants '…underwent in San Francisco, both in a quantitative analysis of certain aspects of their lives and in a more general study of community organization and development' (pp. 2-3). Nearly 2,000 family histories were examined for this study, extending over a period of three generations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History and culture change
- Information sources listed in other works
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- External migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Cultural identity and pride
- Settlement patterns
- Occupational specialization
- Labor supply and employment
- Household
- Family relationships
- Tribe and nation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Americans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1975-1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- San Francisco, Calif., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Dino Cinel
- Includes index. Bibliography: p. [323-338]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 80053224
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italian Americans