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With over 29 years of experience, Damien O’Farrell is a professional, life, and expatriate coach, helping thousands of clients from individuals to corporations. Ultimate Italy is a one-day, once a year, intensive course reserved for 50 people to learn up-to-date quality information about the culture, job market and other necessary information “on h...

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Nestled in the back corner of a wooded cul-de-sac is a brown- and white-sided house Grandma and Papa have called home for over 50 years. Inside is where my dad and his three brothers grew up. The rooms are like time capsules, stationed in a decades-old past. The walls are filled with their collection of art and knick-knacks from traveling. But one...

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John Harrison was born in South Medford, but he can also remember the West End. Some of his mother’s family, the Tringalis, were still there. He can close his eyes and smell the wood stove in his grandfather’s house on Leverett Street, remember the thrill of having a few cents to buy the penny candy at Kramer’s, and see his grandfather and his uncl...

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Talese’s interview comes from a new documentary entitled The Italian Americans, scheduled to air on PBS beginning in February. It is a stylish, engaging, and thoughtful documentary of nearly 150 years of history, chronicling the migration of a largely southern Italian population to America, beginning in the late 1800s and following its winding path...

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Si è riunito questa mattina, 25 ottobre, a Pescara, nella sede della Regione Abruzzo, il Consiglio regionale degli abruzzesi nel mondo (CRAM). Sono tre gli organi partecipativi: il Consiglio, il Consiglio direttivo e l'Osservatorio per l'Emigrazione. E questa mattina, in occasione della prima seduta, l'Osservatorio ha eletto il suo rappresentante i...

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Sono quasi 5,3 milioni gli italiani che, al 1 gennaio di quest’anno, risultano risiedere all’estero. Nel solo 2018 sono espatriate oltre 128 mila persone. Nella classifica degli italiani che risiedono all’estero, la Sicilia occupa il primo posto, con una percentuale del 14,5%. L’isola è seguita da Campania (9,6%) e Lombardia (9,5%). I siciliani che...

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The state will dedicate $750,000 to erect a Big Apple statue honoring Mother Cabrini — after Mayor Bill de Blasio and first lady Chirlane McCray came under fire from Italian American and Catholic leaders for failing to recognize the patroness saint of immigrants as part of their “She Built NYC” program. The funding and construction, announced Thurs...

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Ancora un evento di presentazione per MIGRER, il museo virtuale dell'emigrazione emiliano-romagnola nel mondo, lanciato la scorsa settimana, che questo giovedì, 24 ottobre, tornerà a far parlare di sé a Bologna. Organizzata dalla Consulta degli emiliano romagnoli nel mondo, in collaborazione con l'Università di Bologna - Dipartimento Scienze Politi...

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Last week I gathered most of the remaining tomatoes from the eight plants on our patio, leaving only enough on the vines for salads and sandwiches at summer’s end. I could have used the small harvest to add to stews, soup or baked vegetable dishes, but a memory of my great-grandmother drew me to a simpler magic. Nonna and my great-grandfather arriv...

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Readers discuss an article about how darker-skinned southern Italians faced racism a century ago and had to struggle for acceptance. Re “How Italians Became ‘White,’” by Brent Staples (Sunday Review, Oct. 13): My very white Italian-American children find it hard to believe when I tell them that their four great-grandparents who immigrated to the Un...

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