Samuel Baily. Immigrants in the Lands of Promise.

Contents

Preface

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 l’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

 Appendix

Sources and Samples

Bibliography