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di Emanuela Zuccalà   Sbarcavano a Ellis Island, sotto la Statua della Libertà, con le valigie colme solo di sogni. Li abbiamo visti in tanti film, i quattro milioni di italiani emigrati negli Stati Uniti fra Ottocento e Novecento, ma non sapevamo che tra loro si nascondessero dei musicisti sopraffini.   Mandolinisti, cantanti, pianis...

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Il 19 giugno tavola rotonda promossa dal Centro Studi Emigrazione di Roma, dal titolo "Migrazioni e frontiere. Terra e mare: il confine Usa-Messico e il 'mare nostrum'". L'appuntamento è alle ore 17 nella sede del Cser, via Dandolo n.58.   I processi di mondializzazione in atto e i loro effetti ridisegnano la geografia politica, creando spaz...

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by Andrew Bagley   The Tomasellos are a tireless lot. A characteristic probably attributed to their bloodline and heritage originating in Santo Stefano di Camastra, province of Messina in Sicily. Salvatore and Marion Tomasello, Richard Tomasello's grandparents, were part of the "immigrant newcomers" during the turn of the 20th century....

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At a time when immigration reform is again challenging this immigrant nation, this time involving the Hispanics, it is useful to be reminded of another group that, like the Hispanics, first met with a less-than-warm welcome but eventually earned a seat and voice at the American table: the Italian-Americans.   Explorers Emigrants Citizens: A...

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Every Wednesday night, a small group of students gather for their language course at the Italian Charities of America Inc. in Flushing, Queens. Ironically, the students are not interested in learning Italian, but a separate language that arrived during the wave of Italian immigration to New York City. These students are the children and grandchildr...

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The complete 80 minute version of ATCTC is available on You Tube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqeikaWQCyo   And They Came to Chicago traces the 150-year history of Italians settlement in Chicago, from early arrivals who laid the foundation for burgeoning Italian enclaves to the Italian American contribution to politics and labor, the ar...

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When Pierette Simpson was nine years old, hergrandparents sold everything in their native Italy to bring her to America. But along the way, The Andrea Doria luxury liner collided with another ship, The Stockholm, and sank. A lifeboat saved Simpson and her family.   But 51 people died, and the captain was unjustly blamed f...

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Federal Hill is the embodiment of Italian immigration to Rhode Island. It was the home to organized crime in New England, and it hosts some of the best restaurants in America, but the past decade has been mixed for the neighborhood. The neighborhood in the late 19th century, to early part of the 20th century, was one of the most densely populated...

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Obituary from Campbell Funeral Home. Filomena (Gesualdi) Zelano, 89, beloved wife of the late Luigi Zelano, died Monday, March 9, 2015 at Beverly Hospital.   Born in Panni Foggia, Italy, she was the daughter of the late Carlo and Maria (Calitri) Gesualdi. She was raised in Italy and immigrated to the United States in 1960, settling in Beverl...

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by Jimmy Breslin   Probably the one subject I know better than anyone on earth is the history of Irish-Italian warfare in New York. It began at the turn of the century, when the Irish construction workers tried to get two dollars a day.   As the Irish produce more traitors than any race on earth—Liam O'Flaherty, who wrote The Informer...

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