Rituals of Migration : Italians and Irish on the Move

Maddalena Marinari

ISBN 10: 1479825131 / ISBN 13: 9781479825134

Published by New York University Press Jun 2025, 2025

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Neuware - 'When people migrate, they often perform social and cultural rituals along the way. In a series of lively essays on Italian and Irish migrants from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, the authors of Rituals of Migration examine particular moments, actions, sentiments, and material objects in the process of migration-at the point of departure, in transit, and in the process of return'-- Provided by publisher.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rituals of Migration : Italians and Irish on the Move
• Publisher: New York University Press Jun 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1479825131
• ISBN 13: 9781479825134
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 233W x 162H x 25D millimeters 233 millimeters width by 162 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 546 grams

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Synopsis

Italian and Irish immigrant experiences

When people migrate, they often perform social and cultural rituals along the way. The idea of rites of passage―with its elements of preparation, departure, transit, admission, exclusion, expulsion, and return―helps us understand these moments in the process of migration in new and meaningful ways.

Rituals of Migration offers snapshots of Italian and Irish migrants on the move from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. The essays in this volume examine the particular moments, actions, sentiments, and material objects in the process of migration―at the point of departure, in transit, and in the process of return. Because rites and rituals feature both nonverbal and verbal expression, migration history can be understood by studying physical objects as well as written sources. The authors focus on rituals created by migrants and their descendants, but they also consider the actions of officials who regulated migrants’ departure, travel, admission, exclusion, and removal. By examining what people did, thought, felt, and packed on the eve of their departures, during their journeys, and when returning to their homelands, Rituals of Migration reveals how everyone involved in the immigration process, including the migrants themselves, the families they left behind, and those in charge of regulating their mobility, have tried to make sense of a process filled with peril, uncertainty, excitement, and opportunity.

About the Authors

Kevin Kenny is Glucksman Professor of History and Director of Glucksman Ireland House at NYU and the author of The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States.

Maddalena Marinari is Professor of History at Gustavus Adolphus College and the author of Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization Against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882–1965.