While many Americans expect that immigrants will trade in one membership card for another, God …
Between 1880 and 1920, an estimated one-quarter to one-third of all immigrants repatriated.
— God Needs No Passport by Peggy Levitt (Page 28)
Now that's something they didn't teach us in school.
@re@d.jimfulner.com It's true! My Québécois great-grandfather was born in Concordia, Kansas, but came back to Québec with his parents when he was a very young!
@re@d.jimfulner.com It's true! My Québécois great-grandfather was born in Concordia, Kansas, but came back to Québec with his parents when he was a very young!
@gersande@millefeuilles.cloud so many Americans try to paint modern immigrants as somehow different from their own ancestors. The fact so many keep ties to home and a portion even move back is part of their argument to keep new Americans as "other" but ta-dah even back when travel and communicating were much more difficult they were still doing it. It's just normal and it's part of being American.
@gersande@millefeuilles.cloud so many Americans try to paint modern immigrants as somehow different from their own ancestors. The fact so many keep ties to home and a portion even move back is part of their argument to keep new Americans as "other" but ta-dah even back when travel and communicating were much more difficult they were still doing it. It's just normal and it's part of being American.
