Immigration

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...