Name of Object:

Circular letter by the Italian Director General of Police to all the Italian Prefects, regarding 'Italian migration to Tunis and Bona (Algeria)'

Location:

Catania, Italy

Holding Institution:

State Archives of Catania

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Holding Institution (original language):

Archivio di Stato di Catania

Date of Object:

Rome, 6 December 1878

Description:

The Italian consuls reported large numbers of unemployed Italian migrants in Bona (Algeria), where many Italians ended up begging in the streets, and in Tunis, where many Italians were in dire straits. The Director General of Police instructed the Prefects to inform the Italian population about this situation and warn it against “the shameful and fraudulent enticement by Migration Agents who, out of greed, push our peasants towards the most heartbreaking poverty”. The Prefects were also instructed to “assiduously prevent clandestine migration and repress its promoters”.

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

ASCt, Questura di Catania, el 4, b. 1, c. 76r

Citation of this web page:

Anna Maria Iozzia "Circular letter by the Italian Director General of Police to all the Italian Prefects, regarding 'Italian migration to Tunis and Bona (Algeria)'" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;it;110;en

Prepared by: Anna Maria Iozzia
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell

MWNF Working Number: IT1 110