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By Rosie Scammell   Sitting outside the central train station here in eastern Sicily, a 16-year-old who would only give his name as "Simon" hunched his knees up to his chest and wrapped himself up into a ball. With little spoken English, the teenager from Eritrea has taken to miming the way he traveled across the Mediterranean.   He w...

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There is nothing but pride in the family histories of Wooster's Italian community, and there is no place they would rather be than the United States.   "It was tough coming over here," Kathy Costello said of the men of her family who moved to America on sponsorship. "But they loved America. They settled here and had big families."   R...

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The tradition of honoring an individual from Portland's diverse immigrant community began in 2011, with the unveiling of the Portland Immigrant Statue in Parkrose. On November 21st, folks huddled under canopies, trying to avoid wind-blown rain, at the Portland Immigrant Statue site in outer East Portland – on a traffic island along NE Sandy Boulev...

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Un secolo di storia dell'esperienza migratoria calabrese viene analizzato nel volume "L'emigrazione della Calabria. Percorsi migratori, consistenze numeriche ed effetti sociali" di Francesco Carchedi e Mattia Vitiello, edito dalla Tau nella collana dei "Quaderni" della Fondazione Migrantes.     Il volume parte dall'esodo migratorio...

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The current debate over whether to accept Syrian refugees has echoes of a different time when another wave of people were leaving a Mediterranean country. They were seen by some Americans as being so alien in religion, culture, education, politics and law, that they could never be assimilated. They were even suspected of ties to terrorism. These we...

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di Riccardo Giumelli Ci sono un italiano, un italo-americano e un italico. Tutti hanno in qualcosa in comune. La radice ital, ovviamente, che contraddistingue una provenienza, un'appartenenza, un'identità. Eppure, tra di essi esiste, in particolare tra italiani e italici come avremo modo di vedere, una distanza culturale e comunicativa paradossale...

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The 2006 documentary "Sacco and Vanzetti" brings to life the story of two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. Produced by Peter Miller and Editor Amy Linton, the film presents interviews with researchers and historians of the lives of Nicola Sacco a...

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The Martinis are a family that immigrated to Delhi Township in the 1800s. They have complete records of family members, along with correspondence between both countries to make a complete family history. The Martini family started in Italy. They accomplished a lot there.   An Italian painter, Seaman Martini (1283-1344), painted a pictur...

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This event is dedicated to an exploration of how the immigrant experiences may negatively impact mental health. The event will include members of the creative team for The Snow Orchid, including Valentina Fratti, and a small panel to discuss the "academic" side of the issue.   This event will be co-sponored by ILICA and it will supply the re...

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By Lee Marshall   In the hands of Italian filmmaker Giovanni Donfrancesco, an outwardly simple documentary about a Vermont granite-mining town and the Tuscan anarchist and socialist quarrymen who migrated there at the beginning of the 20thcentury becomes something rich and strange.   It's a cinematic Spoon River Anthology that acts bo...

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