EXAMINING PATTERNS OF ITALIAN IMMIGRATION TO ...

Lazio
Roma 7
8
Rieti 1
(0.18%)
Sardegna Cagliari 8 8
(0.18%)
Molise Campobasso 6 6
(0.14%)
Valle d’Aosta Aosta 6 6
(0.14%)
Friuli Venezia Giulia Trieste 6 6
(0.14%)
Abruzzo
Teramo 4
5
Chieti 1
(0.12%)
Trentino Alto Adige Trento 4 4
(0.10%)
Calabria
Crotone
Catanzaro
1
1
3
(0.07%)
Cosenza 1
Emilia Romagna Rimini 3 3
(0.07%)
TOTAL 4,379
The villages of provenience for many immigrants of the province of Torino, as in
1880, 1900, and 1910, are all in the area of Canavese. Those from the province of Lucca came
from villages or cities scattered all over the province.
2.7 Italians in Houghton County in 1930: numbers and provenience
In 1930 the community significantly drops to 2,839 people. There are 989 (34.8%)
people actually born in Italy, 1,547 (54.5%) with at least one Italian parent, 190 (6.7%) with at
least one Italian grandparent, and 113 (4%) individuals of different nationalities.
The variety of the provinces and the regions does not diminish though. The regions
represented are fifteen (compared to 1920 Basilicata and Valle d’Aosta disappear and Liguria
comes back), and the provinces are thirty-three.
Immigrants for whom there are no data available about provenience are 560 (19.7%).
Marriages between Italians and non-Italians significantly increase. In fact there are 113 people
of different nationalities (3.9%). Torino remains the first province with 1,240 immigrants
(43.7%), followed as usual by Lucca with 663 (23.3%). This time Bergamo, with forty-one
immigrants (1.4%), tops Belluno with thirty-seven (1.3%). Milano and Pistoia follow with
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