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The Survival of the Village in Urban America: A Note on Czech Immigrants in Chicago to 1914

In a penetrating article published in 1964 Rudolph J. Vecoli referring exclusively to the experience of South Italian immigrants in Chicago persuasively challenged the conclusion of Oscar Handlin’s famous work The Uprooted that immigration was an alienating process a traumatic experience the central fact in the lives of immigrants and a process which disorganized all previous social forms and role relationships. On the contrary Vecoli found that the South Italians migrated as groups of villagers settled in tenements on the basis of village of origin contracted themselves as railroad workers on the same basis preserved original familial role arrangements duplicated forms of Italian group life and created mutual aid societies to serve the needs of the transplanted villagers. (excerpt)