The purpose of immigration and urbanization: migratory flows from southern Italy to “other Americas”

The following essay has the Italian immigration in Latin America as its topic, analyzing small, spontaneous flows of immigrations which were directed into regions or marginal countries, privileged by the mass. Those flows are in its vast majority formed by immigration movements, originated from a sm...

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Autor: Cappelli, Vittorio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:Brasil
Institución:Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)
Repositorio:Estudos Ibero-Americanos
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/2238
Acceso en línea:https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/iberoamericana/article/view/2238
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Italian immigration
Peripherical Latin-American regions
Urbanization
Inmigración italiana
Regiones periféricas de América Latina
Urbanización
Imigração italiana
Regiões periféricas latino-americanas
Urbanização
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Sumario:The following essay has the Italian immigration in Latin America as its topic, analyzing small, spontaneous flows of immigrations which were directed into regions or marginal countries, privileged by the mass. Those flows are in its vast majority formed by immigration movements, originated from a small meridian area in Italy, which stimulates a mobility experience related mainly to activities of small merchants or to artisans, having a significant contribution to the construction of urban networks.