Immigration History
Candeloro, Dominic,
Fred L. Gardaphe, and Paolo A. Giordano, eds. Italian
Ethnics: Their Languages, Literature and Lives. Proceedings
of the 20th Annual Conference of the American Italian
Historical Association. Staten Island, NY:
The American Italian Historical Association, 1990.
Paperback, 478pp. Contains an excellent article, "La
Grande Emigrazione Italiana negli Stati Uniti: Il Caso
della Calabria" by Giuseppe DeBartolo,
University of Calabria, written in Italian, and with
excellent statistics, etc.
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Foerster, Robert
F. The
Italian Emigration of Our Times. Reprint of
1924 Cambridge Harvard University Press edition. New
York: Arno Press and the New York Times, 1969. Cloth,
556pp. Classic on Italian immigration, with some references
to rates and causes of immigration from Calabria, well
worth it as a general reference.
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Higdon, Rose
Musacchio, and Hal Higdon. Falconara:
A Family Odyssey. Michigan City, IN: The Roadrunner
Press, 1993. Paperback, 187pp. Excellent source for
Italo-Albanese immigration from Calabria and history
of the village itself.
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Nelli, Humbert
S. Italians
in Chicago, 1880-1930: A Study in Ethnic Mobility.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. Paperback,
300pp. Excellent general history with some references
to the Calabrian settlement.
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Scalise, Guiseppe.
L'emigrazione dalla Calabria. Napoli, L. Pierro,
1905. Library of Congress call number JV8139.A2C5.
(06-19756)
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Sturino, Franc.
Forging
the Chain: Italian Migration to North America, 1880-1930.
Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario,
1990. Cloth, 277pp. Superb history of chain migration
from the Cosentino villages near Rende - the best account.
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Talese, Gay.
Unto
the Sons. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
First Trade Edition. Cloth, 635pp. Excellent family
history of a famous Calabrian-American author--both
in Calabria and in the US.
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Vecoli, Rudolph
J., ed. Italian
Immigrants in Rural and Small Town America. Proceedings
of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the American
Italian Historical Association. Staten Island,
NY: The American Italian Historical Association, 1987.
Cloth, 204pp. References to immigrants of Calabria, especially
railroad laborers from Grimaldi and some who settled
in Cumberland, WI.
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| Zucchi, John.
Italians
in Toronto: Development of a National Identity,
1875-1935. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University
Press, 1988. Cloth, 255pp. General reference with some
coverage of immigrants from some Cosentino villages.
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