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Can Lampedusa Become Europe’s Ellis Island?

Marcello Saija

Ellis Island was an organizational apparatus that implemented a specific project of social engineering aimed at building a new America. Lampedusa is nothing like that. It is...

The EU Too is Asleep on the Rocks

Judith Harris

The flood of migrants pouring into Italy shows no sign of abating, and Italy is appealing to the European Union for assistance. Instead France, for one, has closed its border with...

Divorce, Italian style

Judith Harris

Italy has radically simplified divorce proceedings. From three years of separation before a fractured couple could face a judge, the Chamber of Deputies this week dropped the...

What Therefore [historical forces of emigration] Hath Joined Together, let not [Italian nationals 100 years later] Put Asunder

Anthony Julian Tamburri

As someone who has been teaching a foreign langauge (Italian) since 1972, I am delighted to see the NYC school system will add or expand 40 dual-language programs: Spanish,...

"Finding the Mother Lode: Italian Immigrants in California"

The experience of Italian immigrants in California, which was markedly different from that of their compatriots elsewhere in the United States. An extensive research and weaves...

The Face of Many of Us

Bianca Sorminis

About a hundred migrants lost their lives and many more are still missing off the Italian island of Lampedusa, after yet another deadly illegal migrants boat accident.

Random Thoughts on an Italian Elected Official’s “joke of passing fancy” on a Sunday Afternoon

Anthony J. Tamburri

A quiet afternoon on a New York summer sunday. And suddenly from Italy comes the statement of the Deputy President of the Senate Calderoli. He just compared Minister Cécile...

From Bensonhurst to Oslo and Beyond

Jerry Krase

Negative, or at least puzzled, reactions to visibly different newcomers is universal. Whether in America, Italy or Norway, learning how to see difference positively as part of all...

The Yellow Revolution of Italian Immigrants

Benedetta Grasso

“We are not criminals, we are not clandestine, we are citizens”. Yellow is the color chosen by the Italian immigrants as a symbol of their first strike—a demonstration held...

“We Are Not Animals!” Italy’s Racial Riots and Their Aftermath

Maria Rita Latto

Rage and fear. This is what comes out of the images from Rosarno, a small town near the western coast of Calabria, where violent clashes broke out after two African immigrants...

While Calabria Burns

Judith Harris

“I came here to find Heaven. I found Hell”

What’s his name?! What’s his name?!

Joey Skee

Italian-American naming traditions of abandonment, reclamation, nicknaming, and forgetting.

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