Author: Maria Chiara Marchetti-Mercer
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000936406
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 123
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This book investigates the experiences of second- and third-generation Italians living in South Africa, exploring how nostalgia for Italy influences their sense of identity and belonging. The Italian community in South Africa is a unique diaspora, with a complex history, including roots in Italian colonial activities in Africa, and in World War II. This book looks at how the descendants of these early migrants take pride in being Italian and value the Italian language. They also ascribe much importance to their family roots, and have often created a romanticized image of Italy, mostly based on childhood vacation visits. The longing for an imaginary idealized version of Italy is closely linked to their wider search for a sense of identity and belonging against the backdrop of South African society, currently still grappling with its own multicultural identity. Interdisciplinary by design, this book draws on insights from both cultural studies and psychology in order to shine a light on an important and under-studied diasporic community. The book will be of interest to scholars from across migration studies and the Humanities in general. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author: Gabriele Sani
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italians
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Author: Robert Franz Foerster
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press ; London : H. Milford, Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Author: George E. Pozzetta
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780919045590
Category : Italians
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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Author: Ilse Ferreira
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781920196219
Category : Italians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Chronicling the history of Italian immigrants who made South Africa their home, this reference offers a glimpse into the warmth and enthusiasm that embodied their spirit, even when the times were not always easy. Influencing the varied realms of cuisine, architecture, politics, art, and motorsports, this guide documents the vibrant impact Italian families had on South African culture. A fascinating text and unique archive, this resource also includes a collection of photographs that provide a visual history of the South African Italian community.
Author: Pasquale Verdicchio
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Bound by Distance takes its place among a growing body of scholarship the goal of which is to challenge the kind of thinking that reproduces the "West" as a stable and homogenous political and discursive entity. The Italian nation, with its peculiar process of formation, the continuous tensions between its own northern and southern regions, and its history of emigration, provides an important case for complicating and reassessing concepts of national, racial, economic, and cultural dominance. The author analyzes the interactive space of the history of Italian state formation, Italian subaltern literature, Italian emigrant writing, and the current situation of North African and Asian immigrants to Italy, in order to contest the "feigned homogeneity" of the Italian nation and to complicate and reassess concepts of national, racial, economic, and cultural dominance.
Author: Donna R. Gabaccia
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780295979182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Italians are a migratory people. Since 1800 over 27 million Italians have left home, but over half have returned to Italy. As cosmopolitans, exiles, and "workers of the world," they transformed their homeland and many of the countries where they worked or settled abroad. Drawing on a wide range of studies of Italian migrants to a dozen different countries, Gabaccia puts the modern Italian diaspora in historical context, charting the emergence of this once regionally fragmented diaspora as a nationally conscious cultural group. Italy's Many Diasporasprovides an ambitious and theoretically innovative overview, examining the social, cultural, and economic integration of Italian migrants. It explores their complex yet distinctive identity and their relationship with their homeland.
Author: Aliza S. Wong
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781403974211
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Race and Nation in Liberal Italy, 1861-1911 examines the development of Italian southern question discourse based on the perceived cultural, political, and economic divide between north and south. This book describes the resonance of meridionalism and how the familiarity of its language lent itself to other discussions of difference--the racialization of the southern question and its appropriation by criminal anthropologists in constructing biological hierarchies; the comparisons between the conquest of Africa and the internal colonization of the south; and the establishment of a southern Italian diaspora whose unique racial characteristics could lead to a possible new form of imperialism in South America.
Author: Mark I. Choate
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674027848
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Between 1880 and 1915, thirteen million Italians left their homeland, launching the largest emigration from any country in recorded world history. As the young Italian state struggled to adapt to the exodus, it pioneered the establishment of a “global nation”—an Italy abroad cemented by ties of culture, religion, ethnicity, and economics. In this wide-ranging work, Mark Choate examines the relationship between the Italian emigrants, their new communities, and their home country. The state maintained that emigrants were linked to Italy and to one another through a shared culture. Officials established a variety of programs to coordinate Italian communities worldwide. They fostered identity through schools, athletic groups, the Dante Alighieri Society, the Italian Geographic Society, the Catholic Church, Chambers of Commerce, and special banks to handle emigrant remittances. But the projects aimed at binding Italians together also raised intense debates over priorities and the emigrants’ best interests. Did encouraging loyalty to Italy make the emigrants less successful at integrating? Were funds better spent on supporting the home nation rather than sustaining overseas connections? In its probing discussion of immigrant culture, transnational identities, and international politics, this fascinating book not only narrates the grand story of Italian emigration but also provides important background to immigration debates that continue to this day.
Author: Colin Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Italians
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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The impact of the Italians who left the provincial area of Emilia Romagna in northern Italy (specifially the town of Bardi) and settled in South Wales, setting up restaurants, cafés, and bars.
