The reluctant migrants
Subtitle: migration from the Italian Veneto to central Massachusetts
By: Teresa Fava Thomas
Publisher: Teneo Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Amherst, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781934844717
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Immigrants; Italian Americans; Emigration and immigration; Transnationalism; Américains d'origine italienne; Émigration et immigration; Transnationalisme
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: From reluctant migrants to birds of passage; title: 1. Mountain life in the Veneto; title: 2. Reluctant migrants abandon the Veneto; title: 3. Destination: Massachusetts; title: 4. Arresting the Padroni; title: 5. The second generation; title: 6. Making Americans; title: 7. The 1920s; title: 8. Enemy aliens or American heroes?; title: 9. Suburbs and supermarkets; title: Afterword.