How can you take your whole life and pack it into one piece of luggage? The short answer is: you can’t. From the year 1860 to 2011, a record of 29 million Italians left their homes in Italy and moved elsewhere. During the large period of migration to the United States that spanned from 1881 to 1920, 4,668,665 Italians moved to America.
Additionally, approximately 10-13 million Italians have come to the United States, but there is no record on who stayed in America and who left. People left their homes, families, and everything they had for many reasons. One of the main influences of such a daring relocation was poverty, with many people wanting to gain economic status in a country where they had a better opportunity to achieve such a goal.
