There are many success stories among the Albanian immigrants, such as Haki Krasnigi from Kosovo (Casey pp). . He is the owner of Sal's Pizzeria. Although he comes from a country where pizza is mostly unheard of and dishes such as byrek and grosh are the norm, Krasnigi speaks Albanian in the kitchen and is very passionate concerning the fate of his native country (Casey pp). The 52-year-old immigrant is only one among scores of other Albanian immigrants who have discovered that twirling pizza dough is one way to succeed in America (Casey pp). In fact, it is estimated that as many as seventy-five percent of the pizzerias in Bergen County, New Jersey are owned by Albanians (Casey pp).

Paterson, New Jersey has at least three Albanian-owned pizzerias, and a dozen more pizzerias and Italian-style restaurants across New Jersey are owned by Albanians, such as Agron Mulita, a 27-year-o

The second stage began at the end of World War II and continued into the late 1950's, yet for this wave of immigrants, politics was paramount and the emigration involved all parts of Albania (Fischer pp). Most of these immigrants had fought the Communists during the war or fled the establishment of the Hoxha regime (Fischer pp). The third stage, roughly covering the years between 1960 and the end of the 1980's, was facilitated by a loosening of the quotas established in the 1920's in the United States and by a liberalization of Yugoslav emigration policies (Fischer pp). Most of these immigrants, who left for mainly for economic but also political reasons, were therefore from Yugoslavia and included Moslems from Macedonia and Kosovo as well as some Catholics from Montenegro and Kosovo (Fischer pp). The fourth stage of Albanian immigration started in the 1990's and, with the exception of the large wave of Kosovars fleeing the Milosevic regime, came mostly from Albania proper (Fischer pp). And like the others before them, they migrated for a combination of economic and political reasons (Fischer pp). This last stage, which continues today, was made possible by the collapse of the Socialist command regime and the fact that as a result it was much less difficult to leave the country (Fischer pp).

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