Intergenerational Ethnic Identity Construction and Transmission Among Italian-Australians: Absence, Ambivalence and Revival

ISBN-13: 9783030481445 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str.

Simone Marino

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Previous literature about Italian immigrant groups and ethnic identity

Chapter 3: Theoretical reference points

Chapter 4: Methodology

Chapter 5: Participants’ perceptions of their ethnicity across the three generations

Chapter 6: The Calabrian community and its cultural practices

Chapter 7: Networks and comparatico across the three generations

Chapter 8: Cultural practices and memories of the Calabrian grandparents

Chapter 9: Findings and discussion

Chapter 10: Conclusion and further reflections

Appendix

O autorze

Simone Marino is Lecturer and Course Coordinator in Italian Language and Culture and Lecturer in Sociology and Migration at the University of South Australia. His research interests include transnational mobilities and identities, multicultural policy and the maintenance and loss of minority languages and ‘cultures’ in multicultural societies.

Blurb

This book focuses on the transmission of ethnic identity across three generations of Italian-Australians, specifically Italian-Australians of Calabrian descent in the Adelaide region of Australia. Simone Marino analyzes ethnographic data collected over a three-year period to consider individual, familial and community cultural practices, as well as societal influences on ethnic identity transmission, in order to present generational differences in the understandings of Italian-Australian identity. Among other factors, the role of community events, community networks, and cultural practices associated with being Italian-Australian are examined. The transmission of ethnic identity is analysed through the lens of sociological theories, including Sayad's concept of double absence and Bourdieu's ideas of habitus and cultural capital, and is considered at the macro, meso, and micro spheres of social life. Ultimately, Marino’s study reveals clear generational differences amongst Italian-Australians: the first generation, those who arrived from Italy, manifest a condition of feeling absent, the second generation present a condition of ‘in-between-ness’, between the world of their immigrant parents and that of Australians, and the third generation experience a sense of ethnic revival.