Visits Home: Migration Experiences Between Italy and AustraliaCollection of autobiographical interviews relating the migrant experience. Over 200 residents of a village in north eastern Italy emigrated to Perth between 1900 and 1997.Related are stories of visits home to Italy. Their stories have the themes of homesickness, farewells and reunions. Explores the sense of homelessness experienced and looks at the relationships between immigrants and their homelands and between place and identity. Concludes that visits home are central to the identity of immigrants and their children. Appendices provide migration charts, genealogies, and data on visits. Includes glossary, notes, bibliography and index. Author is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia. |
Contents
The Home Town Revisited | 322 |
Appendices | 341 |
Glossary | 357 |
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1920s migrants Alessia arrived bell-tower bella figura Benato bocce Botteon brother campanilismo Castello church club comune Conegliano consociate construction Corina cousin cultural Danny described despite Don Giovanni Doris dress economic emigrants Ettore experience explained father festa Fiorese in Italy Franco Zamin frazione friends Giacomo godparents Grazia Guido home town immigrants important inhabitants Innisfail interviewed italianità Italo-Australian Kalamunda kilometres Laguna live in Italy Magnacavallo Maria married Michael migrated to Australia miseria monument mother organised paesani Paolo parents Perth Piero polenta priest province of Treviso Queensland reference region relatives Renso repatriate return visits returned to Italy Rico Rita sagra Santolo settled Simon social statue stay successful sistemazione symbolic Tarzo tensions Teresina told Tomaso townspeople Treviso Valtellina Veneto Villorba visit home visit Italy visit San Fior visit to San visitors Vittorio Veneto wanted Western Australia wife women young youth