It's the times Nicky. Back in the early 20th century Italians immigrated to the USA due to overpopulation, poor living conditions, and economic woes. Just like everyone else they wanted a better life and found it in America. These days Italy is trying to "keep" the younger population within the country because the older generation is getting larger and no ones making babies anymore. Italy is actually offering dual citizenship to people in the USA, Canada, and brazil who are of Italian descent. Bottom line is you won't ever have that kind of large scale immigration again, especially not from Europe.
I think you have to have a parent that is an Italian citizen in the US for them to have dual citizenship with Italy, no?
Take my kids for example. My husband is not an american citizen, so when my kids were born here in the US, they automatically have dual citizenship with Italy. Is that what you mean?
