Immigration

Mother Francesca Cabrini was an Italian-American nun, a symbol of immigration rights and missionary work for the city of New York. After moving to the country at 39 years of age, by order of the pope, Mother Cabrini fought from...

Stories are not all the same and they don’t have the same value, even when they look similar. And without critical sense, based on knowledge and comparison, it is hard to recognize and understand those differences and we may end...

Having left Italy as a child, every trip back to the hometown involves an emotional dredging up of past memories…. The pictures evoked long forgotten memories and emotions from so many years earlier, some so foreign that Angelo couldn’t quite...

Trump ha giocato sporco e, alla fine del suo mandato, ha tentato di blindare nomine e provvedimenti che potessero mettere i bastoni fra le ruote ad una scontata azione riformatrice da parte della nuova amministrazione.

Trump's move has clear election propaganda purposes, but it is also the consequence of a xenophobic ideology (once called "nativism") that has characterized his presidency from day one in the White House.

The Neapolitan song, and especially its sub-genre that emerged out of the waves of Italian immigration to America and the world, is a quintessential expression of Italian culture and a precious global asset to defend and preserve at all costs....

The US-Mexico border. The "migrant crisis." The arena of the fake-news-driven, isolationist rallying cry that took 2016 by storm, and that risks dominating the 2020 election as well. I went to an emergency assistance “welcome” center for refugees and migrants...

New Yorkers seized the opportunity to meet this Italian mayor--recipient of the Dresden Peace Prize for his innovative model of immigrant integration-- who has welcomed refugees instead of banishing them, secured them houses instead of placing them in camps, and...

The writer's reflections on the issue of immigration were presented twenty-two years ago during two conferences in Valencia and Paris where Eco distinguishes between Immigration, defined as the temporary and quantitively contained movement of an ethnic group toward another geographical...