Apuntes sobre la migración italiana en Chile

Notes on Italian migration in Chile

  • Chiara Bolognese Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
Keywords: Italian Migrations, Chile, World War I, Italian colonial era, Migrazioni italiane, Cile, Prima guerra mondiale, Epoca coloniale italiana

Abstract

The Italians in Chile today are many, from different backgrounds, and constitute a community quite dispersed throughout the country. Immigration was numerous, and occurred at different times and for various reasons: that of the beginning of the last century, in which people escaped from misery, and the ravages of the World War I - is the migration of the colonial era (1880-1930) - and the emergence of a new culture of immigration. Later in the wake of the Second World War. It is for this reason that Italians born in Italy and who have been living in the country for a long time are now there. decades, and Chilean-Italian, i.e. children of Italians with Italian passports but born in Chile.

Published
2009-12-31
Section
Articles