From the back cover:
From Sojourners to Citizens: Alberta's Italian History brings to life the untold story of Italian immigrants in Alberta from the 1880's to the present.  It places them in the Narrative of the province building work from work on railways, mines and other industries to breaking the land for agriculture.  Oral history excerpts allow the men, women and children to speak for themselves.  What emerges is an unquenchable desire to make good, and overcome intolerable working conditions and discrimination, which culminated with enemy alien designation during the Second World War.  The book also provides an exploration of the impact of Government fo Canada's multicultural policy on the process of assimilation for the post-war influx of immigrants.  It offers a prototype of an immigrant community's movement from marginalization to the mainstream.