13: Comparative Analysis of the Assimilation of Italian Immigrants in Chile: 1900–1930

Italian history and gli italiani nel mondo, Part II

“…Venezuela, however, then experienced what Susan Berglund has termed a 'comparative deluge' of Italian immigration in the yean between 1947 and 1961, and it has generated a growing literature (Berglund 1994;Grau 1994). Here Italians formed an important new middle-class group, with many importers, light industrialists and small businessmen among them; Venezuela's postwar settlement thus seems most to resemble the 'elite colonies' Franzina attributes as well to Chile, where the population of Italians remained much smaller (see also Stabili 1992;Estrada 1992Estrada , 1994.…”