Italians in Australia : History, Memory, Identity

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Label

Italians in Australia : History, Memory, Identity

Title remainder

History, Memory, Identity

Statement of responsibility

by Francesco Ricatti

Creator

• Ricatti, Francesco

Subject

• History
• Islands of the Pacific -- History
• Italy -- History
• Social history
• World history
• Emigration and immigration

Language

eng

Summary

This book provides a concise and innovative history of Italian migration to Australia over the past 150 years. It focuses on crucial aspects of the migratory experience, including work and socio-economic mobility, disorientation and reorientation, gender and sexual identities, racism, sexism, family life, aged care, language, religion, politics, and ethnic media. The history of Italians in Australia is re-framed through key theoretical concepts, including transculturation, transnationalism, decoloniality, and intersectionality. This book challenges common assumptions about the Italian-Australian community, including the idea that migrants are 'stuck' in the past, and the tendency to assess migrants' worth according to their socio-economic success and their alleged contribution to the Nation. It focuses instead on the complex, intense, inventive, dynamic, and resilient strategies developed by migrants within complex transcultural and transnational contexts. In doing so, this book provides a new way of rethinking and remembering the history of Italians in Australia.--

Member of

• Palgrave Studies in Migration History

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Provided by publisher

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Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Springer eBooks.
• Palgrave Studies in Migration History