Ethnic Family Patterns: The Italian Family in the United States

1948 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 443-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Campisi
1999 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Alberto Zanzi ◽  
Colette Dumas

This comparative study of American and Italian family-owned firms focuses on two key aspects of family business management: succession and governance. This study also explored the impact of generation on these variables.


1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 961-974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Foner

This article examines the way family and kinship patterns change in the process of immigration — and why. Offering an interpretative synthesis, it emphasizes the way first generation immigrants to the United States fuse together the old and new to create a new kind of family life. The family is seen as a place where there is a dynamic interplay between structure, culture, and agency. New immigrant family patterns are shaped by cultural meanings and social practices immigrants bring with them from their home countries as well as social, economic and cultural forces in the United States.


2013 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 191-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Putnam

AbstractNew immigration restrictions in the United States and elsewhere in the 1920s and 1930s made legal entry dependent on specific kinship formalities. This article explores the impact of the new system through a study of British Caribbean migrants. Because family patterns and the place of church and state sanction within them varied greatly by class—here, as in many parts of the world—the result was a curtailment of mobility that affected elites very little, and working-class would-be migrants enormously. In order to elucidate de facto patterns of exclusion, the author concludes, historians of transnational labor must begin paying more attention to the work “family” does.


1975 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winston Moo-Penn ◽  
Danny Jue ◽  
Beverly George ◽  
Rorert M. Schmidt

1987 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 709-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Guendelman ◽  
Auristela Perez-Itriago

This study examines changes in work, health and family patterns among men who migrate seasonally between Mexico and the United States. A representative sample of 219 Mexican seasonal migrants to California was obtained in Jalisco, Mexico. The data were generated through a household survey and in-depth follow-up interviews. The findings indicate that migrants experience marked changes and tradeoffs in roles and lifestyles which are reflected in the workplace and the family. In contrast, changes in physical health associated with seasonal migration seem far less apparent. Beyond the economic function of providing jobs and income, migration performs a significant social function which is described in the context of seasonal lifestyles.


2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 280-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo ◽  
Carl L. Bankston

In this work, the authors use statistics from the U.S. Census to examine trends in intermarriage, racial and ethnic combinations, and categorizations among Asian Americans. Specifically, the authors want to consider the extent to which family patterns may contribute to Asian Americans and their descendants’ continuing as distinct, becoming members of some new category or categories, or simply becoming White. Based on the data analysis and discussion, it seems most likely that Whiteness will increasingly depend on the situation: Where there are Asians,Whites, and Blacks, Asians will tend to become White.Where there are only Whites, Asians, including even those of multiracial background, may well continue to be distinguished. Yet people in mixed families will be continually crossing all racial and ethnic lines in the United States, and their numbers will steadily increase.


1953 ◽  
Vol 99 (416) ◽  
pp. 572-579 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Balfour Sclare

This paper is based on a year's psychotherapeutic experience during 1950–51 in a well-known psychiatric clinic in America.The psychiatric patient in the United States, like his brother and sister elsewhere, may be regarded from one viewpoint as a product of his culture. It has been said that the American scene is compounded of an unorganized mass of atypicalities; but, in fact, certain broad cultural trends are discernible. A brief look at the background of social and family patterns will help to give some insight into the psychic apparatus of the sick as well as the healthy person.


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