essay
Italian emigration: reconsiderating the links in chain migration
Arrangiarsi : the Italian immigration experience on Canada • Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Published In 1992 • Pages: 63-90
By: Sturino, Franc.
Abstract
This article discusses the theory of chain migration, based on the work of John S. Macdonald, and its application to Italian immigration from southern Italy to North America. Much of the author's study and research was conducted in the commune of Rende in southwestern Cosenza province (Italy), as well as in Toronto and Chicago, the main destination of the immigrants. Sturino also discusses the role of the PADRONE or labor agent, kin relations, and fellow PAESANI or countrymen in sponsoring the newly arrived immigrants.
- Subjects
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- External migration
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor relations
- Social relationships and groups
- Kin relationships
- culture
- Italian Canadians
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 2000
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 1880-1930
- Coverage Place
- Canada
- Notes
- Franc Sturino
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-90)
- LCCN
- 89197577
- LCSH
- Italians--Canada