The Italian American Table by Simone Cinotto

Author:Simone Cinotto
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

A New Generation of Consumers, a New Generation of Food Businesses, 1920–1940

Between World War I and the mid-1920s, the Italian community of New York underwent major changes. First, with the outbreak of war in 1914, migration from Italy came to an almost complete stop. Migration rebounded strongly in 1919–20, but the racist Immigration Acts of 1921 and 1924 soon reduced immigration from Italy and southern Europe to a trickle. After the passage of the immigration restriction laws, new immigrants were mostly relatives (many of them women) of previous immigrants who had come to make the United States their permanent residence (table 4); many who had arrived before World War I as temporary migrants decided to stay in New York permanently. The steady flow of migrants, which constantly renewed the bonds between communities in New York and those in Italy, began to shrink. From 1921 to 1930, the percentage of Italian-born New Yorkers who chose to be naturalized as U.S. citizens grew from less than 20 percent to 33 percent.115

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