Abstract:The late 19th and early 20th centuries witnessed an unprecedented influx of female immigrants into the United States. Among them, female immigrants from Italy grew rapidly in number, becoming one of the major groups of America’s female immigrants in that period. Italian migration tradition provides a cultural basis for large-scale female migration to the US, and the political and economic changes within Italy during the process of its integration into global economy are the most important driving force. In economy, changes were mainly reflected as overpopulation and stress of survival caused by agricultural crisis, and in politics mainly as Italian government’s policy support for migration. Finally, after American industrial revolution, the center of the world capitalist economic system gradually shifted to North America, which created lots of jobs and thus attracted labors to the United States. The United States being “immigrants’ paradise” is the external factor for Italian female migration. From the perspective of transnationalism, all the above factors contribute to mass Italian female migration to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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YANG Jing. Contributors to Italian Female Migration to the US (1880-1910) from the Perspective of Transnationalism. , 2017, 34(6): 21-27.
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