Presenting a nuanced story of women, migration, community, industry, and civic life at the turn of the twentieth century, Carol Lynn McKibben's "Beyond Cannery Row" analyzes the processes of migration and settlement of Sicilian fishers from three villages in Western Sicily to Monterey, California - and sometimes back again. McKibben's analysis of gender and gender roles shows that it was the women in this community who had the insight, the power, and the purpose to respond and even prosper amid changing economic conditions. Vividly evoking the immigrants' everyday experiences through first-person accounts and detailed description, McKibben demonstrates that the cannery work done by Sicilian immigrant women was crucial in terms of the identity formation and community development.These changes allowed their families to survive the challenges of political conflicts over citizenship in World War II and intermarriage with outsiders throughout the migration experience. The women formed voluntary associations and celebrated festas that effectively linked them with each other and with their home villages in Sicily. Continuous migration created a strong sense of transnationalism among Sicilians in Monterey, which has enabled them to continue as a viable ethnic community today.
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"Beyond Cannery Row is a significant contribution to the study and understanding of the processes of migration and settlement, and a compelling reminder of the crucial role of gender in shaping them."--Labour/Le Travail
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Sicilian migrants to Monterey originated mainly from only thirty-five family groups. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ethnic fishers, fish cannery workers, sardine season, rosary group, cannery women, sardine industry, sardine fishing, cannery owners, sardine canneries, fishing people, fishing families, floor lady, enemy aliens, floor ladies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Santa Rosalia, World War, Pearl Harbor, United States, San Francisco, San Vito Lo Capo, Monterey's Sicilian, Isola Della Femina, Monterey Sicilians, Peter Cutino, San Pedro, New York, Mike Maiorana, Italian Catholic Federation, Joseph's Festa, Sons of Italy, Angie Bruno, Cannery Row, Holy Ghost, Italian American, Lucy Ventimiglia Gruwell, San Jose, Anita Ferrante, Catherine Cardinale, Japanese Americans New!
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Sicilian migrants to Monterey originated mainly from only thirty-five family groups. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ethnic fishers, fish cannery workers, sardine season, rosary group, cannery women, sardine industry, sardine fishing, cannery owners, sardine canneries, fishing people, fishing families, floor lady, enemy aliens, floor ladies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Santa Rosalia, World War, Pearl Harbor, United States, San Francisco, San Vito Lo Capo, Monterey's Sicilian, Isola Della Femina, Monterey Sicilians, Peter Cutino, San Pedro, New York, Mike Maiorana, Italian Catholic Federation, Joseph's Festa, Sons of Italy, Angie Bruno, Cannery Row, Holy Ghost, Italian American, Lucy Ventimiglia Gruwell, San Jose, Anita Ferrante, Catherine Cardinale, Japanese Americans New!
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- Cannery Row by John Steinbeck on 7 pages
- Women of the Praia by Sally Cooper Cole on 6 pages
- Set Adrift: Fishing Families by Marian Binkley on 4 pages
- New Immigrants in New York by Nancy Foner on 4 pages
- Age of Migration, The: International Population Movements in the Modern World by Stephen; Miller, Mark J. Castles in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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