Global Geography of ‘Little Italy’: Italian Neighbourhoods in Comparative Perspective

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Author/collaborator
Title
Global Geography of ‘Little Italy’: Italian Neighbourhoods in Comparative Perspective
Abstract
Between 1870 and 1970, the migration of twenty-six million people from Italy produced an uneven geography of Italian communities worldwide. Migrants initially clustered residentially in many lands, and their festivals, businesses, monuments and practices of everyday life attracted negative commentary everywhere. But neighbourhoods labeled as ‘Little Italy’ came to exist almost exclusively in North America and Australia. The author argues this was the result of the Italo-phobia of the English-speaking world where attitudes towards race and a history of anti-Catholicism helped create an ideological foundation for fixing "foreignness" upon spaces occupied by immigrants who were different from earlier anglo-Celtic and northern European settlers.
Publication
Modern Italy
Volume
Vol. 11
Issue
no. 1
Pages
9-24
Date
February 2006
Language
en
Citation
Gabaccia, Donna R. “Global Geography of ‘Little Italy’: Italian Neighbourhoods in Comparative Perspective.” Modern Italy Vol. 11, no. 1 (February 2006): 9–24.
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