WITHOUT A BELLTOWER
This book is the result of research done from 1975 to 1980 amongst the ltalian immigrants in the South-West of England, mainly in Bristol and Swindon.
The two groups of ltalians living in these towns are independent of each other, reveal different features in their respective origins, patterns of immigration, attitudes and in the way they organise their groups. But one can also detect a certain consistency between the two groups. They are in fact connected through the special ties between the various ltalian institutions of the two towns, ties which do not exist with other towns. Above all, they are connected as a result of particular accidents of history, which threw various members of the two groups together.
CONTENTS
7 – ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Chapter
9 – I INTRODUCTION
9 – The Bristol Region
15 – The Italians in the Bristol Region
26 – Quantification and Composition of the Italian Contingent
31 – Theoretical Perspectives
39 – II. THE ITALIANS’ IMMIGRANT CONDITION
67 – III. PERSONAL RELATIONS AND THE ITALIAN COMMUNITY
93 – IV. THE COMMUNITY’S POLITICAL ORGANISATION
117 – V. THE COMMUNITY’S POLITICAL SYSTEM
118 – The Italian Catholic Missions
122 – The “Patronati”
123 – Italian Teachers and Schools
125 – Consular Agencies
141 – VI. “GOING BACK”; TUE IDEOLOGY AND THE REALITY
153 – The Distance Factor
156 – The Time Factor
158 – A Judgement
163 – VII THE “SUCCESSFUL” PEOPLE
185 – VIII. THE SECOND GENERATION
207 – APPENDIX
209 – TABLES
23 – BIBLIOGRAPHY