Contents
- Prejudice against immigrates in Italy nowadays. [Text]
- Factors determining the late nineteenth century deportation process from Italy: memoirs and legal actions of the Jacini inquiry. [Text]
- Attraction factors and deceits: shipping companies advertising posters. [JPG Images]
- Italians on Ellis Island photographed by Lewis Hine. [JPG Image]
- Prejudices and stereotypes against Italians who emigrated to the USA: satiric sketches of “Judge” in 1903. [JPG Image]
- From bias to legal charge: death sentence against Sacco and Vanzetti. [Text]
Curricular level
Secondary school degree (Senior high school specializing in classical studies or technical education).
Fifth form (18 years).
History
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.