Italian emigration to America from 1861 at the end of World War I

Abstract

In all periods of history groups of men have moved from their territories in search of better living conditions, but of the century this phenomenon has assumed quantitative and spatial particularly dilated. The Italians were then between the protagonists of a real escape and, in countries of immigration, have become the subject of prejudice and false accusations, often the same day that reproduce themselves against foreigners who arrive in the peninsula in search of work.