RECENT ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS IN QUEENS, NEW YORK.
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Title
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RECENT ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS IN QUEENS, NEW YORK.
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Identifier
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AAI8401896
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identifier
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8401896
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Creator
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FORTUNA, GIUSEPPE.
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Contributor
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William Kernblum
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Date
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1983
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Social Work
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Abstract
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The problems that immigrants face in new society have become a matter of social science research. In the social sciences we always face the 'novelty of facts' which requires new paradigms or a new ways to analyze old paradigms which deal with social phenomena. The ethnic revival of the 1970s is one example of the novelty of facts. A new type of Italian immigrant and a decline of Italian immigration due to changes which occurred both in Italy and in the U.S. represent the novelty of facts. Rather than reconceptualizing old concepts such as acculturation and assimilation, I have decided to analyze these instances of the novelty of facts.;The purpose of this dissertation has been to describe the community of recent Italian immigrants in Queens, New York. A study of recent Italian immigrants serves the purpose of updating our knowledge of immigration and ethnicity and discloses differences in their immigration experiences which might have been prompted by socioeconomic, political and cultural changes that have taken place in recent decades in both the U.S. and Italy. This study also allows us to analyze the growth of voluntary associations that differ from old parochial congregations. Several questions have been posed: (1) How do recent Italian immigrants and Italoamericans see ethnicity? (2) Who has an interest in preserving Italian ethnicity? (3) Has ethnicity as an ideology contributed toward building an equal society, or has it fortified the Horatio Alger myth of individual success? (4) How do recent immigrants react to an individualistic society such as America? What strategy do they develop to succeed or to survive?;An analysis of the community, labor market and family structures has served to answer these questions.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy Restricted.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Sociology