why were iatlian's pushed away from there hometown, and what pulled them to come to america? otherwise why did italian's leave italy and why did they come to america?
2007-10-30 18:40:18 · 4 answers · asked by Taylor P 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Interesting question!
The modern history of migration flows shows us that many peoples moved from Europe to others continents from XVI to XX centuries: Northern America, Southern America, Central and Soutern Africa, Asia, Oceania.
Italians moved to everywhere. You can find italians' descendants in Brazil, Argentina, US, Australia, Northern Europe (expecially Germany and France). They also moved from Southern to Northern Italy.
Most of them moved becouse of economical reasons. Living in poor areas, they looked for new opportunities and better life conditions where these could be found. Being US a huge and rich country, it was an obvious destination. Since 1950's economy has gone better in Italy, so the migration flow has decreased. Nowadays, Italy is the destination of many immigrants from Northern Africa, Eastern Europe and Southern Asia.
More generally speaking, migration flows are typical of homo sapiens history. They always took place in the past, and they will probably continue in the future.
Hope to have answered to your question!
2007-10-31 03:33:47 · answer #1 · answered by bass@vol@wer 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm Italian and I live in Italy; edoban gave you the most correct answer. I could still add something: the main destination for Italian emigrants was not the US but more South America, especially Argentina (half of Buenos Aires population do have at least one Italian ancestor who lived in the 20th century) then Brazil; emigration in Belgium and (more in the 60s-80s) Germany concerned the bigger amounts of people.
As for current situation, as said by edoban, Italy is more land of immigration and is funny to note how, according to a recent survey, 11,3% of people who immigrate TO Italy are American!
2007-10-31 19:59:30 · answer #2 · answered by Pinguino 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Same as everyone else who immigrated here. They came for a better life. To be free of Mussolini. They left Italy because the war had destroyed a lot of their country. The people thought they would have a better chance if they took the money it would have cost them to rebuild and they went to the US to start over.
2007-10-31 01:48:03 · answer #3 · answered by Frosty 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A VERY POOR ECONOMY IT ITALY AND A CHANCE IN THE BEST COUNTRY AT THAT TIME . LONG BEFORE THE POLITICIANS SCREWED UP OUR COUNTRY
2007-10-31 01:54:09 · answer #4 · answered by D.C. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋