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-Australian 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.
