Italy's Many Diasporas
Title | Italy's Many Diasporas PDF eBook |
Author | Donna R. Gabaccia |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2013-10-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134226055 |
Italy's residents are a migratory people. Since 1800 well over 27 million left home, but over half also returned home again. As cosmopolitans, exiles, and 'workers of the world' they transformed their homeland and many of the countries where they worked or settled abroad. But did they form a diaspora? Migrants maintained firm ties to native villages, cities and families. Few felt much loyalty to a larger nation of Italians. Rather than form a 'nation unbound,' the transnational lives of Italy's migrants kept alive international regional cultures that challenged the hegemony of national states around the world. This ambitious and theoretically innovative overview examines the social, cultural and economic integration of Italian migrants. It explores their complex yet distinctive identity and their relationship with their homeland taking a comprehensive approach.
Italy's Many Diasporas
Title | Italy's Many Diasporas PDF eBook |
Author | Donna R. Gabaccia |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 281 |
Release | 2013-10-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134225989 |
Italy's residents are a migratory people. Since 1800 well over 27 million left home, but over half also returned home again. As cosmopolitans, exiles, and 'workers of the world' they transformed their homeland and many of the countries where they worked or settled abroad. But did they form a diaspora? Migrants maintained firm ties to native villages, cities and families. Few felt much loyalty to a larger nation of Italians. Rather than form a 'nation unbound,' the transnational lives of Italy's migrants kept alive international regional cultures that challenged the hegemony of national states around the world. This ambitious and theoretically innovative overview examines the social, cultural and economic integration of Italian migrants. It explores their complex yet distinctive identity and their relationship with their homeland taking a comprehensive approach.
The Italian Diaspora
Title | The Italian Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | George E. Pozzetta |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 211 |
Release | 1992-01-01 |
Genre | Italians |
ISBN | 9780919045590 |
Italian Workers of the World
Title | Italian Workers of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Donna R. Gabaccia |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | 278 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Cultural pluralism) |
ISBN | 9780252026591 |
Offering a kaleidoscopic perspective on the experiences of Italian workers on foreign soil, Italian Workers of the World explores the complex links between international class formation and nation building. Distinguished by an international panel of contributors, this wide-ranging volume examines how the reception of immigrants in their new countries shaped their sense of national identity and helped determine the nature of the multiethnic states in which they settled. In Argentina and Brazil, Italian migrants were welcomed as a civilizing influence and were instrumental in establishing and leading syndicalist and anarcho-syndicalist labor movements committed to labor internationalism. In the United States, by contrast, where Italian workers were greeted by the American Federation of Labor's hostility to socialism, internationalism, and unskilled laborers, they organized in ethnically mixed unions, including the radical Industrial Workers of the World. The xenophobia they encountered in the land of opportunity ultimately encouraged sympathy among Italian Americans for Mussolini's modernizing, imperialist ambitions for the Italian state.Covering the work of republican Garibaldi boundaries of historical nationalism.
Ancient Memories, Modern Identities
Title | Ancient Memories, Modern Identities PDF eBook |
Author | Filippo Salvatore |
Publisher | Guernica Editions |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781550710571 |
Ancient Memories, Modern Identities stands for pagan, peasant memories in a postmodern, urban North America. Second- and third-generation authors, young by adoption but old in their vision, express the phenomenon of migration as both a physical displacement and indelible memory.
Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 2)
Title | Migration and Social Protection in Europe and Beyond (Volume 2) PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Michel Lafleur |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 481 |
Release | 2020-10-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3030512452 |
This second open access book in a series of three volumes examines the repertoire of policies and programmes led by EU Member States to engage with their nationals residing abroad. Focusing on sending states’ engagement in the area of social protection, this book shows how a series of emigration-related policies that go beyond the realm of social security address the needs of nationals abroad in the area of health care, unemployment, family benefits, pensions and economic hardship. In addition, this volume highlights the variety of sending states’ institutions that are involved in these policies (consulates, diaspora institutions, ministries, agencies...) and their engagement with citizens abroad in other policy areas such as electoral rights, citizenship, language, culture, education, business or religion. As such this book is a valuable read to researchers, policy makers, government employees and NGO’s.
The Fishing Net and the Spider Web
Title | The Fishing Net and the Spider Web PDF eBook |
Author | Claudio Fogu |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Total Pages | 302 |
Release | 2020-11-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3030598578 |
This book explores the role of Mediterranean imaginaries in one of the preeminent tropes of Italian history: the formation or 'making of' Italians. While previous scholarship on the construction of Italian identity has often focused too narrowly on the territorial notion of the nation-state, and over-identified Italy with its capital, Rome, this book highlights the importance of the Mediterranean Sea to the development of Italian collective imaginaries. From this perspective, this book re-interprets key historical processes and actors in the history of modern Italy, and thereby challenges mainstream interpretations of Italian collective identity as weak or incomplete. Ultimately, it argues that Mediterranean imaginaries acted as counterweights to the solidification of a 'national' Italian identity, and still constitute alternative but equally viable modes of collective belonging.