Lifting the veil: migrant murder, a 'madre italiana', and the politics of transnational colonisation
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Article Title | Lifting the veil: migrant murder, a 'madre italiana', and the politics of transnational colonisation |
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ERA Journal ID | 7718 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Dewhirst, Catherine |
Journal Title | Emigration Studies |
Journal Citation | 48 (184), pp. 653-674 |
Number of Pages | 22 |
Year | 2011 |
Place of Publication | Italy |
ISSN | 0039-2936 |
Abstract | The Italian imperialist program of the period before the Great War went beyond the project to annex other Mediterranean territories in order to include the colonization of the immigrant communities. Today, historians tend to concentrate on Italian foreign policy rather than on the perspective and experience of migration. This essay begins with a murder case in the United States to show a type of Italian response to the international agenda, by deepening the role of the press abroad, and especially of a newspaper editor. The analysis of the pressures on a worker who emigrated from southern Italy allows us to evaluate the function of gender, class and race in the discourse of transnational politics. |
Keywords | Italian imperialism; southern Italian women; migration; crime; Italian migrant press |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 430308. European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman) |
430321. North American history | |
441013. Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Humanities and Communication |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q125v/lifting-the-veil-migrant-murder-a-madre-italiana-and-the-politics-of-transnational-colonisation
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