Italian vs. Irish Immigration Jarrett Rutherford Pd.5 9/18/10 This paper will contrast the two dominant populations of immigrants to the United States in the 19th and early 20th century. These two groups of immigrants were from Italy and Ireland. The reasons both of these groups immigrated to the United States are very similar‚ but their cultures were vastly different‚ and the marks they left on our society are still felt to this day. At the beginning of the 19th century the dominant
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When the Irish immigrated to the United States in 1850 after the great potatoes famine in Ireland‚ the Irish natives were poor and without money‚ although prejudice did not seem to affect the Irish they were subjected to prejudice and segregation. Because the Irish fit in with the white race upon entry to the United States they were not discriminated against like the African Americans and Asian immigrants who were often denied entry into the United States because of their color and ethnic characteristics
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poverty‚ a series of natural disasters‚ civil war and oppression from Northern Italy the Southern Italians started coming to America in flocks between 1876 and 1976. The most concentrated migrations of Italians happened between 1880 and 1920. Italians came to America not to escape these hardships‚ but to work and send money home to Italy in order to get their families out of poverty. Seventy percent of Italian immigrants were men and less than ten percent of them worked in agriculture‚ a sign that their
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experience in Italy this semester has allowed me to realize a lot about the process of integration of the immigrants in Italy. For me‚ the process of immigration in this country is very reflective of both the Italian people’s attitudes towards immigration as well as the current state of their governmental affairs. What I have realized is that while the Italian people are generally opposed to the influx of foreign people and cultures‚ the disorganized state of their national government is not capable of
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Castillo The Irish Movement across the Atlantic The Irish Potato Famine During the 1800 ’s‚ the Irish population relied heavily on the farming and eating of potatoes grown on land that was not owned by them. The land they cultivated and grew their crops on was owned by strangers. In 1845‚ a catastrophic blight struck potato crops all over Ireland. The sudden wilting of all potato crops lasted five years and brought about starvation‚ disease‚ and death. This also brought massive immigration to North
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me a long time to realize that this is the Italian way of living. Being raised in an Italian family is incredibly close to what you see in the movies. Everyone is loud‚ screaming and laughing and there is always plenty of food and wine to go around. While the food is what entices my family to gather around the kitchen table every night‚ it is the combination of the food and conversations that keeps
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Challenges faced by Italians Struggled after Immigration. By Jeremy Lampkin The ethnic group that I most closely identify with is Italian. The Italians started to immigrate to the United States in 1880. They immigrated to many different areas based on what part of Italy they came from. For example the Sicilians settled in New Orleans while the Neapolitans and Calabrians settled in Minnesota. Italians tended to form enclaves where they settled to feel safer and still be able to practice
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Running head: IRISH IMMIGRATION IN 1850’S 1 Irish Immigration in 1850’s Dorothy Mathews Eth/125 March 7‚ 2010
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Comparison Immigration Essay - Jordan Marsh The first group of the old immigration I would like to discuss is the Irish. During the old immigration and they were treated as wild animals. They had to deal with poor wages for jobs and were discriminated against for their actions and beliefs. They left their homeland because of food shortages that caused starving and poverty. The potato famine caused many of these issues. They were hated and treated badly and had to
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Irish Immigration to Canada The Irish began immigrating to North America in the 1820s‚ when the lack of jobs and poverty forced them to seek better opportunities elsewhere after the end of the major European wars. When the Europeans could finally stop depending on the Irish for food during war‚ the investment in Irish agricultural products reduced and the boom was over. After an economic boom‚ there comes a bust and unemployment was the result. Two-thirds of the people of Ireland depended
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