{"id":881,"date":"2017-05-26T03:31:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T03:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/?p=881"},"modified":"2017-05-26T03:31:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T03:31:06","slug":"the-crachesi-immigration-to-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/the-crachesi-immigration-to-the-americas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crachesi Immigration to The Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe story of the Crachesi immigration to the Americas\u00a0occurs in two phases. Both phases share common motives \u2014\u00a0the search for a better life; which is the reason behind\u00a0all immigration and are usually part of larger events of\u00a0the eras they occur.<\/p>\n

Before the 1880-1924 arrival of Crachesi most immigrants\u00a0to the US arrived from Western and Northern European\u00a0nations. Early immigrants were mainly English,\u00a0Germans, and Scotch-Irish with a small percentage were\u00a0other Europeans-French, Dutch, Welsh, Swedes, Jews, Irish,\u00a0Swiss and African slaves who were forced immigrants.\u00a0By the 1850s 2 million Irish immigrants fleeing the\u00a0potato famine and 1.5 million Germans fleeing crop failures\u00a0and the collapse of their democratic revolutions arrived.\u00a0These immigrants generally were Protestant with some\u00a0Catholics (particularly the Irish) and their cultures easily\u00a0meshed into American culture of their era.<\/p>\n

Then from 1880\u20141924, 24 million immigrants arrived\u00a0primarily from Italy, Croatia, Greece, Poland, Czechoslovakia,\u00a0Hungry, and Russia. They came for a variety of\u00a0reasons including economic, social issues, disease, escape\u00a0from forced military conscription, and religious persecution.\u00a0This coincided with the boom of the industrial revolution\u00a0in the eastern US providing opportunities for individuals\u00a0to fill the need for laborers and created the largest increase\u00a0in the standard of living and production in history.<\/p>\n

These new immigrants faced difficulties in assimilating into\u00a0American culture that earlier immigrants did not. Most\u00a0could not speak English, nor were they literate.\u00a0They typically settled in Eastern seaboard cities and\u00a0entered low-paying, wage-labor jobs. They filled the growing\u00a0factories and other jobs such as construction or sewing.\u00a0Often arriving with little money and forced into\u00a0substandard housing in the worst sections of the overcrowded\u00a0cities, their increasing numbers strained the cities causing\u00a0problems with sanitation, and overcrowding.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the immigrants created small ethnic\u00a0communities where they preserved the culture of their\u00a0homelands by publishing newspapers in their native languages,\u00a0opening specialty grocery stores, restaurants, establishing\u00a0churches, synagogues, and schools. But these enclaves\u00a0could not protect immigrants from discrimination.\u00a0Native-born Americans blamed the immigrants for the poor\u00a0conditions and for taking over “their” nation creating prejudices\u00a0and bias that continues today.\u00a0These biases were among the underlying reasons for\u00a0US Immigration Act of 1924 creating a quota system reducing\u00a0the number of immigrants from southern and eastern<\/p>\n

Europe and largely ending the Crachesi migration until the\u00a0mid-1960s when a new wave arrived.\u00a0The causes creating the need for the first group of\u00a0Cracotans to leave the land they inhabited for over a thousand\u00a0years were multiple and built over a long time. These\u00a0included economic, social, and political issues that impacted\u00a0Italy for centuries reaching a peak when the future in Craco\u00a0no longer offered an opportunity for a better life intersected\u00a0with better\u00a0conditions\u00a0elsewhere.<\/p>\n

This occurred\u00a0twice, from 1880-1924 and again in the mid-1960s\u00a0after the Frana.\u00a0The first wave of arrivals from Craco coincides with\u00a0the great immigration period from 1880-1924 that brought\u00a0millions of immigrants from Europe to the US. During this\u00a0period over 1600 Crachesi arrived along with 4 million other\u00a0Italians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The story of the Crachesi immigration to the Americas\u00a0occurs in two phases. Both phases share common motives \u2014\u00a0the search for a better life; which is the reason behind\u00a0all immigration and are usually part of larger events of\u00a0the eras they occur. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crachesi-in-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cracosociety.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}