Editing Sicily (section)

===Emigration===
{{See also|Sicilian Americans}}
[[File:A Sicilian café in New York - Drawn by W.A. Rogers. LCCN2013645874.jpg|thumb|A Sicilian café in [[New York City|New York]] 1889]]

Sicilian emigration started shortly after the [[Italian unification]] and has not stopped ever since.

The aforementioned factors, along with a failed land reform, resulted in a never-before-seen wave of Sicilians emigrating, first to the [[United States]] between the 1880s and the 1920s, later to Northern Italy, and from the 1960s onwards also to [[Belgium]], [[France]], [[Germany]], [[Switzerland]], as well as [[Australia]] and [[South America]].

Today, Sicily is the Italian region with the highest number of [[expatriate]]s: as of 2017, 750,000 Sicilians, 14.4% of the island's population, lived abroad.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.qds.it/26323-disastro-sicilia-in-fuga-i-suoi-figli.htm | title=Disastro Sicilia: In fuga i suoi figli| date=31 October 2017}}</ref> The trend of young Sicilians leaving the island in search of employment elsewhere in Italy and abroad continues in early 21st century.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.lasicilia.it/news/cronaca/12142/emigrazione-fuga-dalla-sicilia-ogni-anno-cancellato-un-paese-di-ventimila-abitanti.html | title=Emigrazione, fuga dalla Sicilia: Ogni anno cancellato un paese di ventimila abitanti| date=29 January 2016}}</ref> Today, an estimated 10&nbsp;million people of Sicilian origin live around the world.