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Title: Faith and assimilation: Italian immigrants in the US

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Publication Year: 2022

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Abstract: How ethnic religious organisations influence immigrants’ assimilation in host societies has been surprisingly understudied. This column looks at the effect of Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920 when four million Italians moved to America and anti-Catholic sentiments were widespread. Italian churches reduced social assimilation of Italian immigrants, lowering intermarriage, residential integration, and naturalisation rates. However, the churches had ambiguous effects on immigrants’ economic outcomes and increased children’s literacy and ability to speak English.

Url: https://new.cehttps//cepr.org/voxeu/columns/faith-and-assimilation-italian-immigrants-us

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Authors: Gagliarducci, Stefano; Tabellini, Marco

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration

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