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

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

Marino, Simone

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ISBN10: 3030481441
ISBN13: 9783030481445
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jul 3 2020
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.43
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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