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This chapter provides an outline of the previous literature on ethnic identity and on Italian migrant groups in Australia. Although ethnic identity has been approached from myriads of theories and different academic fields (e.g. anthropology, history and psychology), the common denominator among this vast academic landscape is a tendency to rely on conflicting (often dichotomous) or one-sided approaches. For example, whereas sociologists examine the ethnic identities of transnational migrants in their diasporic experiences and often disregard the relevance of language, linguists investigate the strategies used in the construction of ethnic identities via social interaction but might neglect the role of cultural practices. In presenting an overview of ethnic identity studies and the literature about Italian immigrant groups in Australia, this chapter discusses the limitations of previous studies, including the dominant tendency to consider ‘the Italians’ as a uniform group, and the proclivity to evaluate a group’s ethnic identity through a quantitative analysis that disregards the emic approach (and consequently does not foreground the participants and their voices), or through the opposite, an ethnographic observation that focuses merely on the emicity of the ‘objects of study’.

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Marino, S. (2020). Previous Literature About Italian Immigrant Groups and Ethnic Identity. In: Intergenerational Ethnic Identity Construction and Transmission among Italian-Australians. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48145-2_2

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