Today we Italians are used to label people as foreign immigrants "weird", the second
level than we do, forgetting however, that even the Italians in the early twentieth century, were a nation of immigrants. We begin first to make an overview of the current situation in Italy and other countries at the beginning of last century. In Italy there was a serious economic crisis due to the closure of factories and industries, problems of conversion of production, agricultural crisis and the consequent spread of unemployment and deprivation. Also in Italy and in other countries at that time, ruled the dictatorships in fascist Italy and Spain, as in Stalinist Russia and Nazi dictatorship in Germany, which has caused enormous suffering to the people, jew, leading to the extermination of millions of people in concentration camps. These situations were really intolerable and thus avoid a real mass exodus continues
toward that continent where living conditions were better for men: America. The Italian immigrants, Germans, Spaniards arrived in the U.S. on boats hijacked, after walking for long stretches of road, in every possible way, to force America to establish a limit of entry for immigrants so that they do not become a burden to the state. We must say that the emigrants had no easy life even once embarked in the United States, as they often could not even get to the mainland, because they were arrested on landing for any, even tiny, health problem or problem beauty attached to it. They therefore constitute an apology for the Americans to stop the immigration, because sick people or women with bald head, due to the contraction of ringworm, would never find a husband, and then people would become more to maintain. If, however, managed to enter the country, were responsible for very heavy work, even unbearable: they were sent to work camps or are exposed to hazardous work in factories, in danger of fumes as the Americans knew that these immigrants needed a job all costs and would not have pulled
back for anything in the world. Even the Italians, then, for a time, were subject to discrimination and were experienced by Americans as a heavy burden. They were born in America then new ghettos. This situation is repeating itself, although to a lesser extent, here in Italy with the immigrants, Pakistanis, Moroccans who flee their country because of war, which claims many victims each year to find work and accommodation. We, instead of welcoming them and give them a chance to rebuild their lives, we consider them a burden and any negative thing happen, we tend always to blame by accusing people of being unreliable. In my opinion this is not right, we should learn from past mistakes not to make more and follow the saying "do not do to others what you do not want to be done to you. " It is incorrect to think that a man is not worthy of being treated like others and have a decent job just because it comes from another country. In my opinion, even more so these people must be understood and helped because they too are entitled to have a peaceful life as we would like all of us.
Elisa
LANDING OF ITALIAN IMMIGRANTS TO ELLIS ISLAND IN 1911
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