New Italian Migrations to the United States: Vol. 1 by Laura E Ruberto Joseph Sciorra

Author:Laura E Ruberto, Joseph Sciorra [Laura E Ruberto, Joseph Sciorra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780252082917
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2017-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

Conclusion

The McCarran-Walter Act’s new family provisions gave Italian American and Italian migrant women in the United States a heightened agency as activators of male migration. Il Progresso advice columns evidence how the press grappled with the implications of women’s new legal visibility for the Italian American community. While such legal changes opened up opportunities and choices for Italian American and Italian migrant women in the United States, most exchanges between letter-writers and advice-givers employed these legal changes to reinforce and often strengthen images of women whose legal, moral, and ethnic identities remained inextricably subsumed within the family. In this, Il Progresso’s portrayal of links between women, family, and immigration legislation complemented the 1952 act’s larger goals of domesticity and family unity. However, women’s new rights to preserve and create families did not remain uncontroversial in Il Progresso advice columns. Previously married wives and mothers provoked less controversy, in part because they usually described themselves in their letters as using these new opportunities to carry out old familial obligations. Unmarried Italian American women, especially ones with U.S. citizenship who had the option to marry Italian men and bring them to the country outside the quota, aroused more unease in Il Progresso, as letter-writers and advice-givers anxiously ruminated on naïve women, dangerous men, and precarious marriages.

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