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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- External migration
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor relations
- Social relationships and groups
- Kin relationships
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Canadians
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1880-1930
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Franc Sturino
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-90)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89197577
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italians--Canada