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Nato in Sicilia Carlo Mignano vive a New York dal 1962. Dopo essersi diplomato da un liceo nel Queens ha prestato servizio nella Guardia Costiera USA per un periodo di quattro anni. Dopo il suo congedo è andato a studiare a Parigi ottenendo un Diploma in Lingua e Cultura Francese. Ha poi frequentato il CUNY Hunter College e l’Università di New York...

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Francesco “Frank J.” Zappalà nacque, il 24 maggio 1897 a Santo Stefano in Aspromonte, provincia di Reggio Calabria, da Giuseppe (“barbiere del paese”) e Carmela Penna. La famiglia Zappalà giunse ad “Ellis Island” nel 1908. Il piccolo Francesco, oramai per tutti “Frank J.”, mostrò, sin da subito, una vivace intelligenza. Fondamentale fu, per lui, l’...

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Christian R. Greco found the earliest known photographs of his family by accident. In the wake of President Trump’s decision to walk back some protections for young undocumented immigrants, the historian and legal activist couldn’t help but think about his own family’s immigration experience and his father’s journey to New York from Italy in Octobe...

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The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) is proud to announce that NIAF Co-Chair Patricia de Stacy Harrison and NIAF Vice Chair Robert E. Carlucci have been named recipients of the 2017 Ellis Island Medal of Honor by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO). The medals are presented each year on historic Ellis Island to a select...

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“The moment of arrival was euphoric, and then silence fell upon them. They were afraid they wouldn’t be let in. The question on everyone’s mind was ‘Will we enter or not? Will they let us pass?’” This is the scene Maurizio Igor Meta told me he repeatedly came across in the many diaries he read, written by European immigrants coming to New York via...

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People are moving more freely across borders and continents and this has kept the topic of immigration in the world’s headlines and sparked widespread protests. The Pew Research Center projects that by 2050, more than one-third of US schoolchildren “younger than 17 will either be immigrants themselves or the children of at least one parent who is...

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“Il nonno di papà si imbarcò a Napoli nel 1890 e, dopo giorni di navigazione, arrivò a New York. In quel periodo, nel novembre del 1890, gli emigranti sbarcavano al Barge Office di Battery Park…” racconta Maurizio Igor Meta, attore, scrittore e regista che dal 2014 lavora a Ellis Island. Ellis Island  è un progetto multidisciplinare che inizia dall...

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Of the twelve million immigrants who arrived at Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954 four million were Italian and my grandmother, Colomba Cordani, was one of them. She left her small Northern Italian village of Ponte del Olio near Piacenza and arrived in New York on April 27, 1909 aboard the French Line steamship Chicago. The ship departed from LeHa...

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by Marcello Cristo    Il ministro degli Interni Angelino Alfano ha avuto un breve incontro con la stampa italiana a New York martedì presso la sede del Consolato italiano di Park Avenue. Di passaggio nella Grande Mela proveniente da Washington, dove ha avuto incontri con il ministro della Giustizia americano Loretta Lynch e con il...

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by Kerry-Lynne Demarinis As Italian-Americans, most of us have grown up hearing the stories of our parents, grandparents and great-grandparents "coming over" from the old country.   After years of hearing the same stories over and over, the memories become our own. We can name all the family villages, the family members left behind, and the...

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