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Title Interview with Liliana Staffiero [Part 1]
Date 1979
Document Type Oral History (Audio)
Name Staffiero, Liliana
Interviewer Barolini, Helen
Date of Recording 1979
Duration 00:31:36
Reference IHRC1106, Box 1, AV196
Library / Archive Immigration History Research Center Archives, University of Minnesota
Collection Name Italians in Dobbs Ferry Oral History Collection
Description Oral history condcuted with Liliana, a recent immigrant who had yet to gain citizenship. Sent to the United States as a child, she comments on her initial homesickness and isolation. Also discusses early struggles at school, her family's migration, religion in schools, sex education, coffee, ice cream and watching TV to learn English.
Theme(s) Permanent Settlement and Successive Generations
Country (from) Italy
Country (to) United States of America
Places White Plains, Dobbs Ferry, New York, United States; Rome, Zungoli, Avellino, Campino, Italy
Nationality Italian; European
Keywords homesickness, immigration, immigrant, emigration, child migration, family, education, language, broadcasting, quota, communism, religion, traditions, citizenship, food
Catalogue Link Immigration History Research Center Archives Catalogue
Language English
Document(s) linked to Interview with Liliana Staffiero [Part 2]
Notes on the Oral History of Liliana Staffiero
Copyright Reproduced by kind permission of the Dobbs Ferry Historical Society, Dobbs Ferry, New York.