Italians in Australia History, Memory, Identity /

• Main Author: Ricatti, Francesco (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Migration History
• Subjects: Islands of the Pacific-History.; Italy-History.; World history.; Social history.; Emigration and immigration.; Australasian History.; History of Italy.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Social History.; Migration.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Mapping complexity: a transcultural approach
• 2. Historical outline
• 3. Work and socio-economic mobility
• 4. Racism and racial ambiguity in a settler colonial context
• 5. Family and generational negotiations
• 6. Transnational ideologies and transcultural practices
• 7. Concluding remarks.