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Intergenerational Ethnic Identity Construction and Transmission among Italian-Australians

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This chapter provides a preliminary discussion that provides the context for the study, and focuses on the methodological orientation. Firstly, this chapter situates the study in relation to the socio-historical context and the geographical situatedness, the migration of Calabrians and their settlement in South Australia, in particular in Adelaide. Secondly, the chapter presents a rationale for the present book with a section related to my own situatedness as a researcher (but also as an engaged participant), and the motivation that brought me to investigate the sense of attachment to a Calabrian identity claimed and enacted by individuals who were born in Australia. The chapter also discusses the significance of the present work and its attempt to fill the methodological and theoretical gaps of previous literature, by stressing the relevance of participant observation (rather than objectification), the intergenerational aspects of the study and the relevance of ontology in the study of migration and identity.

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Marino, S. (2020). Introduction. In: Intergenerational Ethnic Identity Construction and Transmission among Italian-Australians. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48145-2_1

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