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Starting point of this paper is the «Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights – 06/30/16 – Action no. 51362/09 – Taddeucci and McCall c. Italy», which sentenced the Italian government for not having granted residence permit due to family reasons to McCall, Taddeucci’s partner. Thanks to the recent approval of the law 76/2016 on Civil Unions, the right to family cohesion for homosexual couples has been fully recognized. In fact, since 02/11/17, the foreign partner of a same sex couple is allowed to apply for the Italian citizenship. This paper aims to identify the consistency of this type of phenomenon and to investigate the social and cultural dynamics that emerge from it. The analysis focuses on the emergence of family models, which determine different perceptions, capable of producing homophobic attitudes, sometimes associated with racial discrimination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the role of the so-called second generations concerning the issue of the «marriages of convenience» between Italy and Ethiopia. The work ethnographically analyzes the relation between transnational marriage alliance and citizenship value beyond its finalistic perspective. Drawing on the analysis of the social structures allowing transnational mobility through marriage, I will use a mobility perspective to analyze the «convenience» of this phenomenon from children of immigrants’ side. The paper aims at shedding light on the social value of citizenship between second generations involved in this phenomenon beyond its instrumental value, and as a gauge of social legitimation. By connecting marriages with their social positioning in a transnational social space and considering the social structures reproducing their differential relation in the national public space, the paper will show how «marriages for mobility» can well be considered as practices of Italianness among second generations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Norway is becoming one of the new destinations of the Italian immigration, and the number of Italians living in Norway has substantially increased since 2008. Using data from official sources and from a recent mixed-methods research, the purpose of this paper is to present the main characteristics of the Italians in Norway and shed light on the profile of the Italian new mobility - why they moved and how they live in Norway. The analysis indicates that the sociodemographic characteristics of the Italians in Norway and their motives for migrating are rather different from those of the previous migration waves. Today, most Italians in Norway have a high educational level, with highly qualified jobs, and are less dependent upon the migrants' networks. Also the number of women migrating alone has increased. Despite higher resources and life satisfaction, the Italians living in Norway experience difficulties in establishing satisfactory social relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the 19th and first half of the 20th century, Tunisia was a destination for many Italian migrants and a country at the center of imperial rivalries operating in the Mediterranean. This paper investigates the role that the Italian school network in the Tunisian Regency occupied both in community-building among Italian immigrants and in the Franco-Italian imperial rivalries. By focusing its analysis on government schools, it assesses how their political intent changed diachronically concerning the geopolitical context's evolution, especially after the French military occupation of Tunisia. International agreements, defense (and construction) of extraterritoriality, imperial tensions, and colonial society were the cornerstones that constituted the educational institution's space of action. Making use of the documentation from the French, Italian, and Tunisian archives, the research also demonstrates, on the one hand, the supplementary relationship of private-subsidized schools to the rigid governmental network. On the other, it highlights the autonomous educational experiences of immigrant groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study starts from the premise that the violence suffered by Italian migrant women has not yet been adequately considered. Identify traces of suffering and «large» and «small» violence by rereading the research that had as its object the trafficking of white women, arranged marriages, brides by proxy, women left home by the husbands, women assisted by social workers for intergenerational conflicts. It shows that a good starting point can be to identify the sources for writing the history of this violence by reading between the lines of literature and official documentation: by on-board doctors, judicial reports, social work or asylums files. But, he concludes, it is in the literature and, in particular, in some studies carried out recently in the United States, that the tragedies experienced by women can be found. Also, from memoirs we can understand the reasons for the reticence of historiography to address the topic. The family memories handed down orally and put on paper by descendants of the second or more generation seem in fact to offer the most promising fields to reconstruct their history, in particular for the older migrations of which we cannot have direct evidence, having as protagonists predominantly illiterate women, who spoke neither the language of the new countries and sometimes not even Italian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the two films of the Taviani brothers through which the Tuscan directors have narrated the early 20th century Italian diaspora in the United States: the first episode of Kaos, the 1984 film based partly on Pirandello’s Novelle per un anno, and the 1987 film Good morning, Babylon. Besides analyzing various sequences of the films, especially those related to the departure, arrival and pursuit of the American dream, in this paper I explain how both films aimed not only to recall the relevance of a social-historical phenomenon such as the great migration, but also by reflecting on the present and the future, the films force us to focus on the drama of those who today are forced to leave their homeland in search of a better future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ancestors can be a source, as well as the genealogical practice can be a tactical devise to obtain a passport, which enables people to move easier in a hierarchic global space. In the Argentinean case, on the one hand, the number of genealogical researches to apply for an Italian second citizenship raised up, on the other hand, the practice of the genealogy itself has become more popular, above all along the middle classes, whereas a basic genealogical knowledge has spread within the young generations. Using interviews, as well as bibliographical and statistic data, this paper aims to mark the complex connection, not only the instrumental one, between different genealogical practices produced by Argentineans of Italian descendant, Italian citizenship applications and the new Argentinean migration flows to Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Battiston and Sestigiani's paper examines a string of articles by Diego Novelli that appeared in «l'Unità» in 1971. These articles not only represent a detailed account of Novelli's trip to Australia but also a unique point of view on the Italian migrant workers' economic and working conditions, and the migrant workers' degree of integration into the social fabric of the host country. The paper argues that Novelli's trip aimed, on one hand, to expose the consequences of the Italian Government's emigration policy and the dire straits the Italian migrant working class in Australia had been experiencing. On the other hand, archival sources reveal that Novelli's trip hoped to lay down the foundations for a political activity geared to attract Italian migrants towards the Italian Communist Party and the Left. This was all the more facilitated by the conditions of exploitation of Italian emigrants found by Novelli Down Under. The essay by Daniela Cosmini-Rose and Desmond O'Connor examines the attitudes to Italian migration to Australia expressed in the press of both countries in the years preceding and following the signing of the agreement in 1951. It documents the ways that the two governments reacted to the Australian recession of 1952, which was unanticipated and for which Australia was unprepared, and how the press in Italy and Australia reported the protests and riots involving newly-arrived Italian migrants. It reaffirms the view that, unlike those who were sponsored by relatives or friends, the least «assisted» Italian migrants were in fact those who entered Australia as part of the government-assisted migration scheme. Francesco Ricatti and Matthew Klugman consider some of the results of an oral history project conducted in Sydney, on the importance of football (soccer) in migrants' lives. Through the analysis of 32 interviews with Italians who migrated to Australia in the postwar period, and with their children, the article aims to demonstrate the importance of football in the historical study of Italian communities abroad. The article focuses in particular on those themes that are central to the memories and reflections of the interviewees. These include the importance of their football passion, the role played by soccer in processes of adaptation and integration, the construction of complex identities through football fandom and sporting activities, and the proud awareness of the contribution of Italians to the development of football in Australia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the end of the Nineteenth Century, anarchism spread among textile workers in the Veneto region. Many of them emigrated to America because of exploitation and political persecution. One of them was Isidoro Bertazzon. In 1907 he went to Canada, via Ellis Island, and then to Seattle, in the United States. In 1917, escaping arrest and deportation because he had distributed the anarchist paper Cronaca Sovversiva, he returned to Italy and in 1922 emigrated to Australia. In Melbourne Bertazzon was one of the editors of the anarchist paper Il Risveglio and a leader of the anti-Fascist Matteotti Club. He corresponded with leading anarchists in Europe and America. In 1930 he published L'Avanguardia libertaria, which in 1932 was banned by the federal government. Under surveillance from fascist consuls and the latter's informers, in 1933 Bertazzon settled near Griffith, New South Wales, from where he went on pursuing the anarchist cause, until his death in a car accident in 1940. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wet-nursing was a practice that lasted in Italy for several centuries and disappeared in the middle of Nineteenth century. Italian wet-nurses found job opportunities also abroad. Based on the research carried on by various scholars in specific areas, this paper provides an overview of the phenomenon according to a supra-regional perspective. The identification of departure areas (rural centers in the Alps and Appennini) and destination points (Egypt and southern France which had an old Italian community) trigger further considerations about this particular migration flow resulting from the migration of female domestic helpers, in the case of Egypt, and of the female textile workers for France. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Historiography has neglected Italian immigrant journalism and press in the region of the Rio de la Plata, and more generally in South America, for a long time. This trend has been interrupted only recently thanks to some targeted studies that, in addition to an interest in the editorial aspects of those media, have focused on the men and women who have animated them, by preserving their identity. In this paper, through a comparative analysis, the author focuses on the myriad of ethnic newspapers in the Italian language in Argentina and Uruguay (country inexplicably neglected by scholars of Italian emigration), and briefly reconstructs the story in relation to migration flows, since 1841, when the first Italian magazine of the area object of attention was founded in Montevideo, up to the present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Villa Regina is the most Italian among the cities in Patagonia., Located at the entrance of the Rio Negro Upper Valley (Argentina), it was founded in 1924 by Italian settlers as a «business center» of the ciac (Italo-Argentine Society of Colonization). Considered a fascist model of planned emigration, before the so-called «Cities of the Duce», for about twenty years it was dominated by an élite wearing the fascist black shirt, acting in perfect fascist style, as if they were still in a lictorial «enclave». In this paper, based on unpublished archival documents, testimonies, and rich media sources, the author documents how and how much the political genetic imprinting influenced and conditioned the new community in terms of political, social and cultural rights. Finally it investigates what was left of the original fascist model in Villa Regina, where, incidentally, many settlers also professed socialist, communist and anti-fascist ideas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay deals with an original topic in social studies: the street life of Italian internal migration youth in Turin. Starting from the sixties youth gangs have been considered in some classic urban anthropological studies. Indeed they are a still existing phenomenon in Europe often concerning first and second generation migrants. The fieldwork was basically focused on Turin's suburbs, in particular on certain public housing-neighborhoods. Data are based on judicial files and judgments of the Juvenile Court of Turin. Furthermore the paper presents for the first time the results of a census carried out in the archives of Turin's Istituto Penale per Minori Ferrante Aporti concerning the youths jailed in 1979. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Most investigations on Sicilian immigrants in the United States at the turn of the Twentieth century have focused primarily on the study of the communities that chose to settle in the large industrial milieu of the Atlantic belt, as if the transition from farm to industrial worker represented a physiological process inscribed in the unstoppable march of history. The research aims at showing that this outcome was actually the consequence of the failure of the forecasts and plans drawn by the U.S. and Italian governments. To investigate this trend, the paper offers a detailed examination of the tendencies as well as the ups and downs in the establishment of rural settlements in southern States based on the promotion of small landownership and intended to accommodate Sicilian immigrants. In explaining the ensuing failures, it highlights the role of the networks that caused a radical deconstruction from below of the ideological representations underlying these projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines the intertwinement of literature, migration and crosscultural practices by means of the comparison of some theoretical models elaborated within the contemporary international debate and a series of literary texts by Italian emigrants in Germany. Specific attention is paid to Franco Biondi and Carmine Gino Chiellino - two authors of Italian origin who write in German - and to the bilingual poet Giuseppe Giambusso. As a result, the essay offers a critical reappraisal of the theoretical debate on interculturality and reveals the potentialities of the artistic literature about migration as a now, more than ever, key field for a reexamination of the models describing the encounter with cultural otherness in western societies. According to the A., the literary writings analysed represent a thriving laboratory of cultural practices of contact, crossing, and intersection that reflects the emergence of subjectivity and a wider and more inclusive society with a strong aesthetic impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Desde el 2007, en el periodo correspondiente al inicio de la crisis económica que involucró a Italia durante 10 años, se resgitró un aumento en la expatriación de los italianos. Aún así, esbozar una idea clara de esta emigración es difícil, sobretodo porque la movilidad al interior de la UE y los AELC permite permanecer por largos periodos en otro país sin cambiar la residencia propia. Con una investigación cualitativa basada en el análisis de 20 entrevistas, este artículo se propone investigar el caso de la nueva inmigración italiana en Suiza, en particular en Basilea, más allá de la brain drain, tema del cual se tiende a abusar tanto en el campo de la investigación como en los medios de comunición. Los datos a emergir dan un cuadro altamente diversificado en términos de background socio-económico, así como de formación y de inserción laboral en el nuevo contexto en donde, en algunos de los casos, los elementos de continuidad con la gran emigración italiana precedente de los años 60's-80's, es la de los Gastarbeiter en las fábricas y en las obras suizas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]