Italian Immigration Case

Around 1830 larger numbers of immigrants began coming to the US. At first there weren’t lots of people coming each year. Soon, as outside countries began to take on hardships, people began to immigrate in higher numbers than before. When a mass amounts of immigrants started to get noticed was around 1850, when the Chinese Immigration Economic Opportunity was big (Doc. 1). Later numbers began to rise and fall.

Many Italians made the United States their home, but getting to the Land of the Free was not easy for them. Many things made the Italians move from their country, and many things brought them to the United States. They faced many hardships while in the country. They all managed to find work in different areas, and in different time periods. They also left important legacies.

Today New York City is home to over 3 million Italian Americans. When the Italian immigrants first came to America many settled in downtown Manhattan, in an area that came to be known as Little Italy. Living conditions in Little Italy were terrible. Large families were forced to live in tiny tenement apartments with sometimes up to five or six family members sharing a tiny bedroom. When the immigrants were able to save up enough money many moved their families to Staten Island where it was more rural and land was relatively inexpensive. Phyllis Lamattina, a longtime resident of the Roosebank area, has the knowledge of the Italian immigrants’ relationship to St. Joseph by Rosebank Church and how important the values of family was to the immigrants. In this interview. Ms. Lamattina, shares a brief oral history of her family and tells of this importance of family and church to the Italian immigrants.

As humans we believe that we are unique and there is nobody in the world who is exactly the same as us. However our uniqueness originates from our life experiences and these events we experience drive us towards certain characteristics that mark who we are. No matter how unique you may feel there is likely someone else in the world who has gone through similar situations.

Hello readers, I am Paul Michael Dowdell, better known to my friends or hockey teammates as “Sugar.” Now, as you could guess, my interesting nickname most definitely has an interesting backstory; I’ll come back to that later. Well, I come from German and Italian ancestors, as my last name might show. Most of my fellow peers can tell that I am German because of my stereotypical blonde hair and blue eyes, and you could also guess that I am Italian as I eat a lot of pasta, and one of my favorite foods is pasta-fagioli, plus, I LOVE pizza. Especially white pizza with a garlic sauce and pepperoni and as Matthew Denis stated, “Throughout the world, Italy is known for its many pasta dishes, as well as pizza” (“Italy: Cuisine”). One

From 1890 to 1915 estimated around 4 million Italians arrived in the United States. Majority being from 1900 to 1914. Once they arrived in America, immigrants faced difficult challenges. Most of the time not even knowing the English language and also having very little education. Many of the new immigrants were forced to accept the lowest paying and hellish jobs. Sometimes were often forced by the average man who acted like they were slaves. Most of the immigrants found homes in the older sections of the big northeastern coastal cities. Later became known as the "Little Italy’s" most of the time being overcrowded average homes, which had terrible living condition with bad lighting and poor heating in the winter. Tuberculosis was one of the constant health problems for the immigrant families that were forced on by economic circumstances to live in these homes. Other immigrant families lived in small homes which was even more common in areas outside of the big northeastern cities.

“The contrary stance-punitive on the one hand and welcoming on the other- leaves both Europeans and immigrants in limbo, stuck between what they used to be and what they could become” (P 184) This passage is in reference to the immigration issue in Europe and keeping immigrants out. Italy for example has programs to integrate immigrants however the process is so rigorous that few are able to enter the country through legal means. This draws the interest of those seeking opportunity whom are then faced with many barriers upon realizing the difficulties in actualizing their objective for opportunity.

More than half of the people have been reported dead. Since Isis started attacking, people have been looking for peace. They have sailed to Europe on a boat and even to Italy. Although many immigrants have successfully got to where they needed to go, others have not even made it to the shore. People have been anxious to leave Libya in order to keep their family

“A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation”―Ronald Reagan. Throughout Western Europe, there is a mass growing of immigrants coming across their borders illegally and immigration officials are having a hard time of keeping all the illegals out. One of the largest countries seeing a large spike in illegal immigration is Italy where just this year alone more than 500,000 immigrants are projected to attempt to cross their borders. Illegal immigration is getting so bad that with the increasing number of immigrants Italy continues to grow less and less stable as a nation. In the article entitled “Italians revolt against migrant invasion” by Nick Squires of Rome, we take a deeper look into the paradox of why so many Italians are revolting

Freely accepting the migrants would be a much better solution. Moreover, distribution of refugees calculated according to host country population or gross domestic product was a gross simplification and unworkable. Also, possibilities of integration of the migrants in particular countries should be taken into consideration. Equally important is the dialogue of all the 28 EU member countries concerning common solutions for asylum policy. Additionally, the

Every year, thousands of Sub Saharan Africans trek through the dangerous journey north to attempt to get into Europe. These people emigrate from some of the poorest nations in the entire world seeking a longer, higher quality life. These migrants are escaping a life expectancy of only 47 years and a population growth almost four times that of Europe and HIV rates almost nineteen times that of Europe. They seek a better life not only them, but their families as well, looking for higher education rates like Europe 's 99% versus their 66% education rate. Overall the living conditions of sub-saharan africa are extremely poor along with a GDP almost six and a half times lower than Europe’s. These migrants pay what they have saved for years just to buy their way to Europe, costs ranging from approximately one to three thousand Euros. All these problems are the origins of sub-saharan migration to europe, where thousands are losing their lives every year, but what should Europe do about it? Although there are EU policies to help migrants who get into EU soil, these policies are only of good use when they are used correctly by uncorrupted systems. This makes it hard for migrants to try to get residence in the EU, on top of the fact that these policies do not apply to the bordering nations. These problems along with discrimination and the fact that the journey to get there in the first place is extremely dangerous, all of these problems should be addressed by the EU and

I think educational opportunities and language skills should be a requirement for every immigrant. If we are going to accept refugees – which I believe we should – then we need to have social programs to help them to navigate the societies they find themselves in and provide them with financial, emotional and social support systems until they can stand alone. This all costs money and I believe all the rich countries of the world should work together to foot the bill. It’s not fair to leave Italy and Greece to absorb all the African refugees and it has been satisfying to note that The European Union has stepped up with financial aid in the last few days. In a thoughtful commentary published by the Wall Street Journal in June of 2014, the following suggestions were proposed: “There is no doubt that Mare Nostrum is expensive, costing Italy an estimated €9 million a month. But those costs would be manageable if they were spread more evenly across EU countries. The EU has a humanitarian aid budget of €1 billion annually, which amounts to about 1% of the EU 's total budget. Considering that Mare Nostrum is directed to the ultimate humanitarian purpose—saving lives—the costs seem easier to justify.

Since 2011, Syria has been engaged in a Civil War with protestors against the government and members of the extremist group ISIS, and approximately 7.6 million people have been displaced from their homes (usnews.com 2015). As the conflict destroys more homes and livelihoods each year, an increasing number of civilians have been forced to leave Syria and try to find safety elsewhere. Already a contentious issue, the Syrian refugee crisis has awakened tensions, both economic and social as debate erupts over what to do with the refugees.In response to the crisis, while some countries like Germany have pledged to help the refugees, (New Statesman 2015 1) only 2,340 have been admitted. Clearly, more needs to be done in order to help the refugees. Although there are economic and population concerns to be considered, the humanitarian conflict that faces the refugees and solutions already available are reason enough for Europe to increase the numbers of Syrian refugees allowed in.

The Syrian refugee crisis has received massive media coverage. People around the world are trying to comprehend the desperate, complicated situation surrounding Syria. The civil war in Syria is the worst crisis in our time. Syrians upset at the fact that long promised reforms have not been enacted, began anti-government demonstrations which started the civil war in 2011. The peaceful protests turned ugly, with the government violently putting an end to those protests. Afterward, ordinary citizens took arms, causing the situation to escalate. Syrians are fleeing their homes because of the great violence, which have left thousands dead and millions wounded, a collapsed infrastructure, resulting in a shattered economy, and for the safety of the children. Syrians are either streaming to surrounding countries or risking their lives to travel to Europe.

The important underlining problem is the fact that these migrants are arriving and staying in Italy and Greece. Both Italy and Greece are going through an economic crisis that cannot sustain the migrants that are landing within their borders; they are asking the European Union to give them relief, by imposing quotas to redistribute the migrants to other European nations that are a part of the migration policy. The migrant crisis also brings insecurity to nations such as Italy and Greece because of they are not prepared to deal with the amount of people entering in their borders. Not all European countries