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The Italian Diaspora
Rivista: the journals of the British Italian Society
To read online, for no cost. Rivista, offers a richly-illustrated record of the entertaining and informative talks delivered by prestigious speakers. The range of topics is wide – from history to culture, economics, business, the arts, music, sport and modern life in the peninsula. Rivista also includes features and articles of general interest about Italy and Italian culture. First published, in August 1946, as a roneoed monthly bulletin, Notiziario Italiano, which reprinted news and comment from the Italian press and carried transcripts of lectures, the publication has developed into today’s printed (and online) annual journal.
This article sheds light on Italian emigration flows with a focus on their geographical origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that is, during the so-called Great Migration. Annual province-level data on Italian emigration are analysed in order to reconstruct the regional origins of emigrants, the factors motivating their decisions, their gender, and their literacy levels. The regions generating the largest population outflows were located in the North of the country. Despite the literature's focus on the Italian south diaspora to the US, the main destinations of Italian emigration in this period were other European countries.
Giorgia Meloni’s balancing act: Bill Emmott, Engelsberg Ideas
Italy is the home of two important experiments. One is political: [...] it became the first of the major protagonists from the 20th century’s European wars to elect as its leader someone who identifies their political roots as coming from fascism. The other is economic: as the largest recipient of the first big transfers of European Union funds derived from collective borrowing, known as the Recovery and Resilience Facility, Italy has in effect become a test of whether such transfers can be handled safely and well in a country viewed with suspicion by northern Europeans as inherently corrupt and riven with organised crime.
Sending States: the Historical Example of Italy: Mark I Choate
Archival evidence is used to study the historical policies of Italy, as a classic sending state. Most mass migrations of a century ago came from multinational empires, but Italy was a recently formed independent state. Ambitious to benefit from emigration while assisting and protecting emigrants, Italy reached out to “Italians abroad” in several ways: the state opened a low‐cost channel for remittances through a non‐profit bank; promoted Italian language education amongst Italian families abroad; supported Italian Chambers of Commerce Abroad; and subsidised religious missionary work amongst emigrants. Italy’s historical example of political innovation and diplomatic negotiation provides context, comparisons, and possibilities for rapidly changing sending state policies in the twenty‐first century.
The Centuries-Old History of Venice’s Jewish Ghetto
A look back on the 500-year history and intellectual life of one of the world’s oldest Jewish quarters
A specialized resource centre on Italian and international migration.
Centre for the study of Italian worldwide diaspora. Has a ‘find your roots’ database for the Americas. Free to register.
Centre for Migration Studies: Rome
The Centre for Migration Studies (CSER) was established to study the sociological, historical, political, theological and pastoral aspects of national and international migration movements. Includes bibliographies, and details of their library.
For the History of Italian Emigration. Based in Lucca, with museum, archive and library.
From FamilySearch: Italy under Napoleon 1812, after Napoleon 1815 and the present day, including provinces.
Historical Maps: Italy, Europe and Beyond
Italy: Encyclopaedia of Information
An online encyclopedia of the leaders of nations and territories: provides detailed lists of leaders, chronologies, flags, national anthems and maps to give an overview of territories past and present.
Provides street plans of Italy and shows comune boundaries not visible on Google maps. A selection of regional sites: hotels, farmhouses, art, culture, villas and castles, gastronomy and folklore.
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