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From: "Lawrence Green" <>
Subject: Re: migration from argentina to US - criteria?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 04:03:50 GMT
References: <6.1.1.1.2.20040605220359.01db8348@pop.shout.net>


I have family that left Calabria in the 20's went to Argentina then came to
Wisconsin in the 50's. After WWI there was a freeze placed on them, that was
one way to get here the other was go to Canada



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news:...
> Hi!
> My father in law left Calabria at the end of WW2 and went to Argentina.
Some
> years later he emigrated from there to San Francisco where he raised his
> family. I understand immigration from Italy to America was strictly
> limited in
> the postwar years. Is this the case? And were these limits less strict
from
> Argentina, does anyone know? My husband's brother, a child at the time,
says
> he remembers immigration being very easy, but he doesn't know the details.
> Both the parents are now dead, so we can't ask them, but I am researching
the
> Calabrian and Argentinian histories and should appreciate this information
to
> bring it all together.
> Many thanks
> Janette
>


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