Italians in Australia - Francesco Ricatti Gebunden

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-Australi an 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.