Immigrants in the Lands of Promise: Italians in Buenos Aires and New York City, 1870-1914

Abstract

Prologue: Migration from a Participant Family's Perspective Introduction: The Comparative Study of Transnational Italian Migration PART I: THE ITALIAN DIASPORA AND THE OLD AND NEW WORLD CONTEXTS OF MIGRATION 1. Italy and the Causes of Emigration 2. The Italian Migrations to Buenos Aires and New York City 3. What the Immigrants Found PART II: THE ADJUSTMENT OF THE ITALIANS IN BUENOS AIRES AND NEW YORK CITY 4 Fare I America 5. Residence Patterns and Residential Mobility 6. Family, Household, and Neighborhood 7. Formal Institutions before the Mass Migration Era 8. Formal Institutions during the Mass Migration Era 9. Constructing a Continuum