Italian Migration

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The Italian Migration to English-speaking countries

Final Quiz

MIGRATION

IMMIGRATION

EMIGRATION

Can you explain the difference between these three terms?

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Who's an immigrant?

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a person who has come to a different country in order to live there permanently

a person who has left his/her country permanently

a person who has moved to a new area within the same country

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Who's an emigrant?

a person who moves from his/her native country to another one

a person who has come to a different country in order to live there permanently

a person who was born in a country but has relatives who migrated there

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Can you name the main causes of migration?

When did the Great Migration occur?

In the XVIII century

In the XIX century

between the XIX and the XX centuries

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Where did the Italian migrants mainly move to out of Europe?

USA, South America and South Africa

USA, China and South America

USA, South America and Australia

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How was the voyage to get to the US?

Easy peasy, just like nowadays

It was very long but rather comfortable

It was terrible: it lasted weeks and the conditions were rather appalling

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What was Ellis Island?

An island in the Caribbean where migrants used to spend their holidays

The place where migrants arrived and had to undergo some inspections before entering the US

A place where most migrants where sent to if they didn't pass all the controls

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How did the phenomenon affect our region?

In no way, people didn't want to leave their hometowns

It influenced our region, because most people had to migrate due to lack of resources in our territory

It was only internal, i.e. Trentino people only migrated to other Italian regions

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Why was it a problem to find data of the Trentino migratory flows related to the Great Migration?

Because nobody kept track of them

It was too difficult to track them

It is due to political issues

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What happened after the I World War and in the two following decades to the migratory flows?

They didn't stop, but were definitely less in terms of numbers due to the political situation

They increased because after the war people were even poorer

They didn't really change, they kept steady.

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When did the migration of Italians started to increase again?

During the II World War

In the 90ies

In the 50ies

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What were some of the jobs that migrants from Trentino used to do in the US?

They worked as manual labourers, in the infrastructure industry or as knife-grinders

They used to work mainly as taxi drivers in the Big Apple

They used to work in agriculture and industry

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What happens to a minority language in a migratory context?

It is easy to predict: migrants will always speak their native language even in the host country

It's hardly predictable: it depends on various factors

It will always be spoken with the host language: second generations will grow up bilingual

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What happens usually to the language of second-generations of migrants?

Second generations usually tend not to speak the native language of their parents.

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Second and even third generations usually manage to acquire the native language of their parents and grandparents.

It is likely that second generations will acquire the native language of their parents and become bilingual, but it isn't always the case.

What's the difference between Language Acquisition and Language Learning?

The main difference is the level of proficiency you reach

You acquire a language when you live in a foreign country; you learn it from your home country

Acquiring a language is a natural process: we all acquire our mother tongue(s). Learning instead is a conscious process

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If in a sociocultural context the majoirity of English native speakers is dominant, it will be easier for children of immigrants to abandon the native language of their parents and prefer English.

TRUE

FALSE

It depends

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What happened to the language spoken by the Italian migrants?

It evolved under the influence of the language of the hosting country

Most families managed to speak Italian and even the following generations perfectly learned it

Italian migrants kept speaking Italian and never really learned English

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How did the Italian migrants manage to maintain their native language and transmit it to their children over time?

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Thanks to migrant communities in which they could speak their dialects and share part of their life

They never went to school in the hosting country

Because they couldn't learn English

What's an example of language that developed from the contact between English and a local dialect?

Taron

Rendenglese

There was no such a language

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