Memories of Belonging: Descendants of Italian Migrants to the United States, 1884-Present

Memories of Belonging is a three-generation oral-history study of the offspring of southern Italians who migrated to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1913.

About the author

Christa Wirth has taught at Harvard University and is currently teaching in the History Department at the University of Zurich. She has published articles on migration, including "Memory and Migration, Research" in The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Volume IV, Immanuel Ness (ed.) (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, pp. 2158-2164).

Product details

• Authors: Christa Wirth
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.02.2015
• EAN: 9789004284562
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28456-2
• No. of pages: 420
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 739 g
• Series: Studies in Global Social Histo
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories