Book
From Italy to San Francisco: the immigrant experience
Stanford University Press • Stanford, California • Published In 1982 • Pages:
By: Cinel, Dino.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Historian
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1991
- Field Date
- 1975-1976
- Coverage Date
- late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Coverage Place
- San Francisco, Calif., United States
- Notes
- [by] Dino Cinel
- Includes index. Bibliography: p. [323-338]
- LCCN
- 80053224
- LCSH
- Italian Americans