Gli italiani nel mondo
Italians in the world
At the end of the nineteenth century, the south of Italy was a region devastated by poverty and from famines. Millions of peasants and day labourers had no had future.
The solution seemed to be emigration. The Americas offered work in the mines, in the factories and in the railways. The crossing of the Atlantic lasted weeks in conditions very harsh.
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On Ellis Island, in the port of New York, the immigrants were checked and often their their names were changed or simplified by the officials American.
In the cities American, the Italians grouped grouped in neighbourhoods called Little Italy. They brought with them the their recipes, their their dialects and their their festivals religious.
Many never returned ever to Italy. The letters that they sent to their families told of sacrifices enormous and of a nostalgia deep for the villages of their origins.
Today it is estimated estimated that in the world live about sixty million of people of Italian origin Italian. Their their contribution to the culture and economy of their countries of adoption is been immense.