Immigration

The reaction to events in Charlottesville, VA has brought about an opportunity to re-visit how the United States has honored historical figures who are not necessarily the virtuous figures many had assumed. This has led to rally cries to tear...

Professor and poet Michelle Messina Reale documents the lives of refugees in Sicily by turning their words into verse. Her aim is to create awareness of the greatest humanitarian crisis of our time. "I use poetry because it's evocative, it's...

Every Saturday afternoon the “World Friends Chess” Club meets at the Hudson Park Library in New York to dedicate an entire hour to the game of chess, to friendship and integration. The players are all children and many from refugee...

Radical ideas, heartbreaking story and a quest for redemption: Ernesto Orrico comes back to In Scena! and this time brief the hurtfully human story of Joe Zangara to New York's theatres. On stage on May 4th and 7th, this show...

Afro-Italian filmmaker Fred Kuwornu's new documentary "Blaxploitalian" explores the social issues and complexities of Italy's contemporary society, and criticizes the Italian entertainment industry for being oblivious of non-white Italians

Commemorating the centenary of Frank Sinatra's birth, Hofstra University is organizing a six-days conference on the legendary crooner and on his ambivalent relationship with Italy and with Italian-American culture reflecting on a very common aspect of the immigrant experience then and...

During his recent visit to Rome the Secretary General of the UN Ban Ki-moon gets personal  telling the story of his own experience as a refugee during the Korean conflict and urging Western countries to see the potential in the...

Luigi De Magistris, the Mayor of Naples, talked at the Calandra Italian American Institute of the City University of New York conference. He focused on immigration to and from Italy: “Naples, like New York, is a city on the water. And where there is the...

Do the neo-Conquistadores in Italy’s Government, who want to stop North African immigration across the Mediterranean with bombs, know that Libyan insurgents have jet fighters and fighter-bombers? And did you know that an astronaut went to the moon in a mission for Texan massonic lodge? (Leggi in...

Interview with Grace Russo Bullaro, co-editor with Elena Benelli of Shifting and Shaping a National Identity: Transnational Writers and Pluriculturalism in Italy Today, (Troubador, 2014): "Ideally success, psychological as well as social, lies somewhere at the mid-point, embracing the new with all its...