Description: "When people migrate, they often perform social and cultural rituals along the way. In a series of lively essays on Italian and Irish migrants from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, the authors of Rituals of Migration examine particular moments, actions, sentiments, and material objects in the process of migration-at the point of departure, in transit, and in the process of return"-- Provided by publisher.
Brief description: Kevin Kenny is Glucksman Professor of History and Director of Glucksman Ireland House at NYU and the author of The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States.
Review Quotes: "Offers a very human journey into the lives of immigrant Irish and Italian families divided by distance and hardship. Careful research into Italian and Irish customs of a century and more ago provides new insights into two of history's greatest migrations--and a valuable framework for understanding the hopes and sorrows of today's migrants. Many readers will hear echoes of their own families in these accounts."--Paul Moses, author of An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians