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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>

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

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

====Canada Background====

===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====

'''1848 to 1870'''. More than 20,000 emigrants left Italy and migrated to the United States. This wave of emigration was caused by political upheaval and revolution as Italy struggled to become an independent, unified state.  

===Uruguay===

====Uruguay Online Sources====

====Uruguay Background====

*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]]