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Immigrants in Italy Today. Italians in the Early Years of the 20th Century

FOOD FOR THOUGHT / STUZZICHINI. Episode 8. Anthony Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College/CUNY comments on Gian Antonio Stella's...

RADIO/Fred Gardaphe: Beyond the Immigrant Paradigm

Fred Gardaphe's keynote lecture "Beyond the Immigrant Paradigm: Identities and the Future of Italian-American Studies" at the Calandra Institute's conference "Italians in the...

Xenophobic Italy? A Gypsy Camp Set to Fire in Naples After the Attempted Kidnapping of a Baby

May 2008. Around 400 gypsies in Ponticelli (east of Naples) have been forced to flee after residents entered their camps armed with iron bars and threw Molotov cocktails and...

IMMIGRATION. An Instructional Film (1946)

Encyclopedia Britannica Films inc. produced this Immigration video, which shows a brief history of immigration in the U.S. until 1946, in collaboration with Henry S. Commager,...

MEMORY. "Italian ... Nobody's Perfect"

In "Pane e cioccolata" (1973), the popula actor Nino Manfredi plays an Italian immigrant in Switzerland who is questioned by the police and confronts not only stereotypes and...

MEMORY. The Struggle of Boston's Italian Immigration

A National History Day Documentary about the many hardships of Boston's Italian Immigration. Created by three young people in their college age and posted on YouTube, it is based...

MEMORY. "Questo paese è stranzo!"

A short video made for a high school Italian class purports to illustrate an Italian family emigrating to the U.S. in the 1920's. Despite its uncertain Italian, it captures the...

SOLIDARITY. Squatting in the Fashion City. Immigtant Life in Milan

Immigrant's life in Milan, the "Fashion City" also dubbed sometimes Italy's Moral Capital... This 2007 video with rap soundtrack tells how African immigrats live in Milan's Viale...

SOLIDARITY. Gliugliano: A Sunny Inferno on the Outskirts of Naples

Giugliano, a few miles from the "City of Sun". A modern inferno for Slavs, Romanians, Gipsies, Africans... A reportage by Nicola Angrisano, founder of the independent...

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