Italian and Irish success narratives usually drop the context of their migration -- a time when even legal immigrants to the United States from Europe had a one in three chance of voluntarily returning home overseas. Turbocharged attrition set them up to become a success story. https://twitter.com/GarettJones/status/1002645395426639877 …
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I don't think so, however Ellis Island collected information such as residence and occupation from new arrivals, so it could be possible. The source I last recall on more northern European migration said those who returned home were disproportionately rural family farmer types.
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Evidence from other angles too strong for me to believe that there is not something wrong with the usual presentation of this situation.
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