Böcker av Donna R. Gabaccia

For many immigrants, the move from Sicily to a New York tenement was accompanied by rapid, significant, and often surprisingly satisfactory changes in a wide variety of social relationships. Many of these changes can be traced to the influence of a changing housing environment.

As cosmopolitans, exiles and "workers of the world", Italians transformed their homeland and many of the countries where they worked or settled. This text examines the social, cultural and economic integration of Italian migrants, and explores their relationship with their homeland.