Since the great waves of emigration between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, millions of Italians crossed the Atlantic in search of new opportunities, contributing decisively to America’s economic, social, and cultural growth.
Today, the descendants of those paesani who left with little more than cardboard suitcases but with enormous reserves of hope and courage, together with the steady flow of young Italians who still move abroad for study, work, research, and professional opportunities, form a community fully integrated into American society and present across virtually every sector of public life: from entrepreneurship to politics, from culture to scientific research, from entertainment to academia.
