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Italian's In Scotland, Living conditions - Coggle Diagram
Italian's In Scotland
Jobs
fish and chips - lots of restaurants with lasting affect on Scotland with many fish and chip customers
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Economic contribution
Italians immigrated into scotland looking for work mainly factory work in the central belt of scotland. This had a negative impact on living conditions and caused overcrowding and competition for jobs.
Were they accepted?
Scots and Italians clashed over local cafes / however eventually some scots preferred the italian restaurants
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Living conditions
Italians arrived in Scotland from the 1890’s onwards,
Trying to escape hunger and poverty back in Italy,
4500 Italians in Scotland by 1914, spread,
Cramped, poorly lit, under ventilated, and usually without indoor plumbing,
The tenements were hotbeds of vermin and disease, and were frequently swept by cholera, typhus, and tuberculosis,
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Most italians went and lived in New york, brooklyn and new jersey but some came to scotland,
They usually worked in places like ice cream shops and cafes,
They worked long hard hours and worked which sometimes meant they didn’t integrate with scots,
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