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A brief history of America’s hostility to a previous generation of Mediterranean migrants — Italians
PRI's The World
November 26, 2015
A wave of migrants from the Mediterranean meets a hostile reception from many Americans. The migrants are seen as alien in religion, culture, politics, law. So different in fact that some Americans argue that they can never be assimilated. They are the Italians, in the 1890s.