Narratives of Italian Transatlantic (re)migration, 1897-1936.

ABSTRACT: Remigration is typically envisioned as the final stage of the migration experience, a one-way movement from the host country to the country of origin. This article offers a novel, intimate view of historical return migration as a more complex and discursive process. The case study is Italian American migrants at the turn of the twentieth century, one of the groups which - according to historical statistics - was most actively engaged in Transatlantic remigration; more recent readings, however, show that many of these returnees eventually re-emigrated to the US. Using for the first time immigrant newspapers against the baseline of the Italian public discourse, the article analyzes Italian migrants' own accounts of remigration as a way to access the more subjective dimension of migration. Th

SUBMITTER: Viola L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10703390 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature