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<span style="color:DarkViolet"> '''These sources cover multiple countries'''. </span>

*[https://www.altreitalie.it/Servizi/Cerca_Le_Tue_Radici/Cerca_Le_Tue_Radici.kl Centro Altreitalie] Three databases, available online, with the landing lists of Italians in Argentina, Brazil and the United States.

*[http://www.ciseionline.it/2012/index.asp Centro Internazionale Studi Emigrazione Italiana], searchable database. CISEI has several databases containing information on millions of Italian migrants. By entering the person's data you will be able to know the date, the place of departure and destination, and get information on travel, sea travel and family members. In the most fortunate cases also read a short account of the migratory experience.

*[https://www.venarbol.net/en/liens/recherche-dans-les-pays-demigration Italian Emigration Sites] <span style="color:DarkViolet">'''Benelux / France / United Kingdom / Swizerland / American continent / Canada / USA / Argentina / Brazil / Peru / Venezuela / Algérie / Tunisia / Australia / New-Zeland'''</span>

<span style="color:DarkViolet"> '''Additional online sources unique to each country of destination are listed below.'''</span>

==Finding the Town of Origin in Italy==

If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Italy, see [[Italy Finding Town of Origin|'''Italy Finding Town of Origin''']] for additional research strategies.

==Italy Emigration and Immigration==

Italy used to be a country of mass emigration, from the late 19th century until the 1970s. Between 1898 and 1914, the peak years of the '''Italian diaspora''', approximately 750,000 Italians emigrated each year. Today, large numbers of people with full or significant Italian ancestry are found in '''Brazil (25 million), Argentina (20 million), US (17.8 million), France (5 million), Venezuela (2 million), Uruguay (1.5 million), Canada (1.4 million), and Australia (800,000)'''.<ref>"Demographics of Italy: Modern Italy and immigration", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Italy#Modern_Italy_and_immigration, accessed 19 April 2021.</ref>

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===Argentina===

====Argentina Online Sources====

===Brazil===

====Brazil Online Sources====

*'''1858-1899''' [https://www.altreitalie.it/Servizi/Cerca_Le_Tue_Radici/Cerca_Le_Tue_Radici.kl Centro Altreitalie] Three databases, available online, with the landing lists of Italians in Argentina, Brazil and the United States.

*'''1875-1900''' [http://www.emigrazioneveneta.com/ Emigrazione Veneta] "If your ancestors came from Venetia: the Venetia is indeed the province where from left Italians’ largest number towards Brazil, in particular at the beginning of the Italian colonization in Brazil (1875-1900). Search by initial of the surname or complete name, information on the travelers."

====Brazil Background====

===Canada===

====Canada Sources====

=====Halifax, Nova Scotia=====

Halifax, Nova Scotia was an influential port of Italian immigration between 1928 until it ceased operations in 1971.

====Canada Background====

===France===

====France Online Records====

*'''1880-1935''' [http://www.basesdocumentaires-cg06.fr/os-html/immi/home.html Italian immigrants who lived in the Alpes-Maritimes between 1880 and 1935], index

*'''1893-1929''' [https://www.cegfc.net/www/histoire/sinibaldi/fiches/lettre_A.html Immigrants in Franche-Comté (1893-1920), mostly Italians], index

*[http://www.geneaita.org/DBFF-Dictionnaire-des-frioulans-en-France Biographical dictionary of Italians coming from Frioul (provinces of Udine, Pordenone et Gorizia) and settled in France], index

====France Background====

*Italian migration into what is today France has been going on, in different migrating cycles, for centuries, beginning in prehistoric times right to the modern age. According to Robin Cohen, "about 5 million French nationals are of Italian origin if their parentage is retraced over three generations".  According to official data of the Eurostat for 2012, the number of Italian citizens residing in France was 174,000.

===United States===

====United States Online Sources====

*'''1905-1910''' [https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/4742/ Italian Passengers to Louisiana, 1905-10] at Ancestry ($)

*[http://immigrants.byu.edu/search/by_section/3 BYU Immigrant Ancestors Project: Italian] index

====United States Background====

*From 1880 to 1890, more than 300,000 others arrived.  

*As word arrived in Italy of the opportunities in America and as economic problems increased in Italy, nearly 4 million Italians came to America between 1890 and 1914.  

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===Uruguay===

====Uruguay Online Sources====

====Uruguay Background====

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*Marisa Vannini calculated that in the 1980s Italian-Venezuelans made up almost 400,000 of Venezuela's population, including second-generation descendants of immigrants.

*Currently (2021), Italian citizens resident in Venezuela are reduced to less than 50,000, due mainly to demographic mortality and to their return to Italy (because of a Venezuelan political and economic crisis in the 2000s).<ref>"Italian Venezuelans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Venezuelans, accessed 21 April 2021.</ref>

== Immigration into Italy ==

*'''Early 1200s.''' '''Waldensian emigrants from France''' moved to northern Italy as a result of religious persecution.  

*Currently, there are '''1.2 million Romanian-born citizens''' living and working in Italy.  

*Today the Romanians make up the largest community in the country, followed by '''Albanians''' (441,027) and '''Moroccans''' (422,980).The fourth largest community in Italy are the '''Chinese'''.<ref name="mod">"Demographics of Italy: Modern Italy and immigration", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Italy#Modern_Italy_and_immigration, accessed 19 April 2021.</ref>

== References  ==

[[fr:Italie Emigration et immigration]][[pt:Itália, Emigração e Imigração]]