The coveted "Made in Italy" label calls to mind visions of nimble-fingered Italian tailors lovingly sewing elegant, high-end clothing. The phrase evokes a sense of authenticity, heritage, and rustic charm. Yet, as Elizabeth L. Krause uncovers in 'Tight Knit', Chinese migrants ar…
"Following World War II, Italy underwent a major social crisis owing to an unprecedented unemployment rate. As a result, both the Italian and the U.S. governments promoted and subsidized the emigration of the unemployed and the unskilled, particularly to Latin America, in order …
Analysing the lives of women in Italy, Belgium, France, the United States, Canada, Argentina, and Australia, the contributors offer engaging portraits of women as peasants, and workers and uncover the voice of female militants. Through a comparative approach to the study of wome…
Scholars in the United States have long defined the Italian immigrant woman as silent and submissive; a woman who stays 'in the shadows'. In this transnational analysis of women and gender in Italy's world-wide migration, Franca Iacovetta and Donna Gabaccia use international and…
In this transnational analysis of women and gender in Italy's world-wide migration, Franca Iacovetta and Donna Gabaccia challenge the stereotype of the Italian immigrant woman as silent and submissive; a woman who stays 'in the shadows.'
1. Beyond the Italies : Italy as a mobile subject? / Pamela Ballinger -- 2. Italian mobilities and circulating diasporas in neoliberal times / Nicholas Harney -- 3. Contact, contagion, immunization : Gianni Amelio's Lamerica (1994) / Rhiannon Noel Welch -- 4. Becoming ospite : h…
