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A 19 page research paper that investigates the question of why the majority of Italian immigrants to North America were drawn from Southern Italy, rather than the northern region of the peninsula. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Southern Italian Origins of Immigrants to North
America Research Compiled By - March, 2012 properly! On March 24, 1884,
twenty-four men said good-by to their families and left the small Italian village of Gildone, bound for Naples from which they would depart on the transatlantic voyage that would take
them to North America (Ramirez 93). They were accompanied by the businessman who recruited them and assured them that their wages would be a $1.50 per day, which would be
sufficient to pay back the price of passage and then they could begin sending money back to their families. None of the men viewed the voyage as a permanent relocation,
as they all planned to return to Italy and their families at some future date. However, just thirty years later when Nicola Manzo, another Italian peasant, made a similar journey,
he did it unaccompanied and with a plan to work in the Ontario railroad camps and, would he had sufficient funds, he would send for his family and they would
settle permanently in Montreal (Ramirez 94). As this indicates, the nature and consequences of migrant labor changed over ensuing decades, but Manzo shared a characteristic with the first Italian
sojourners described above in that he, also, came from Southern Italy, as did the vast majority of Italian immigrants who journeyed to Canada in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, as well as during the years following World War II. The following paper examines why this demographic fact is true, that is, it explores the question of why
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