A Multinational Community

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This paper explains that, although the Little Italy community of Toronto was settled in 1885 by seasonal laborers from southern Italy, this neighborhood includes immigrants from other areas of Italy, Portugal, China and other countries. The author explores reasons why, even as these immigrants moved away to the suburbs, this community still remains a vibrant city center, which functions not only as the business hub of an ethnically diverse Italian population but also the religious and cultural center shared with many other ethnic groups. This pattern, the paper underscores, is not like the migration pattern of immigrant ethnicities in other cities, who take their cultural institutions with them as they move out of the area into which they first settled.

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"However, Italian immigrants were not so unified in the beginning, and it was precisely the close-knit neighborhoods where this differentiation took hold. Apparently, the advantages offered to new immigrants, of a very local social community prompted immigrants to stay within these already established enclaves. However, this localization heightened tensions between other Italian social and economic niches to the point where even marriages stayed within the social network of neighborhoods."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Stanger-Ross, Jordan. "An Inviting Parish: Community without Locality in Postwar Italian Toronto". The Canadian Historical Review. Vol 87. Number 3. (Oct. 2006) pp381-407.
• Tourism Toronto. "Little Italy". (Accessed June, 2008) <http://www.torontotourism.com/Visitor/WhatToSeeAndDo/Neighbourhoods/LittleItaly.htm>

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