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A 4 page paper which examines the transnational ties maintained by Jews and Italians as presented in Nancy Foner’s “From Ellis Island to JFK.” No additional sources cited.
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was actually a reality, people would still manage to stay connected to their family and friends in their country of origin. Today that task is much easier, but back in
the 19th century, and surely before, it was a much harder relationship to maintain. Nancy Foners work "From Ellis Island to JFK" discusses many aspects of immigration, not the least
of which is transnational ties. The following paper defines transnational ties, as presented by Foner, and then discusses how it related to the experiences and conditions of Jews and Italians
in the United States. Transnational Ties "The term transnationalism, as developed in the work of Linda Basch and her colleagues, refers to processes by which immigrants forge and
sustain multi-stranded social relations that link together their societies of origin and settlement....An essential element...is the multiplicity of involvements that transmigrants sustain in both home and host societies" (Foner 169).
It is not merely a matter of maintaining customs and traditions that the culture has brought with them from their homeland, but rather a way of living that contributes to
both cultures in many different ways. Foner states, "In a transnational perspective, contemporary immigrants are seen as maintaining familial, economic, cultural, and political ties across international borders, in effect
making the home and host society a single arena of social action. Migrants may be living in New York, but, at the same time, they maintain strong involvements in their
societies of origin, which, tellingly, they continue to call home" (169-170). Jews and Italians With the Jews and Italians of American history we have two distinctly different cultures
that surely maintained their transnational ties for several reasons. It seems that more often than not, these immigrants had family, close family, both in the United States and in their
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