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Rubino, Antonia. "From trilingualism to monolingualism : a case study of language shift in a Sicilian-Australian family." University of Sydney, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1614.
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Doctor of PhilosophyThis thesis analyses language shift in a Sicilian-Australian family, from the parents' use of three languages: Sicilian, Italian and English, to the children's almost exclusive use of English.
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Longo, Maria. "Self-esteem, ethnic identity and maintenance of traditions in second generation Italo-Australians /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpsl856.pdf.
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Frangiosa, Rita. "The impact of learning Standard Italian among Italian Australian dialect speakers." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17229.
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This study investigates the impact of learning Standard Italian among Italian Australian dialect speakers. More specifically, it examines the Italian language learning experiences of bilingual Italian Australians who grew up speaking an Italian dialect at home and studied Italian in formal contexts. It also investigates the possible effect that formal Italian language instruction, and other influences, have had on their current language use. Despite the fact that in Australia the Italian language has been taught in various programs over many years and to a large number of learners who are Italian dialect speakers, little research has been conducted in this area. This study is informed by both social constructionist and phenomenological frameworks and draws on research in the areas of sociolinguistics and second language learning and instruction. The research was conducted in Adelaide, South Australia, on a sample of ten Italian Australians who were brought up in Australia speaking an Italian dialect, using a mixed method approach. Pre-interview questionnaires and semi structured interviews were used to obtain data which was analysed through a thematic approach. From this, themes emerged in the areas of language learning experiences and the participants’ perceived impact that such experiences, and other influences, have had on their language use.The findings show a range of learning experiences among participants. While a small number identify areas where their Italian instruction has had an impact, most do not believe in such an impact on their language use. All perceive that other influences, such as family networks, have had a more significant impact.
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Fanning, Stephen. "Migration and marketing: The consumer acculturation of Italian-Australians." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2010. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2090.
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This thesis explores, through the lens of marketing theory, the migratory experiences of a group of Italian–Australians. Migration is generally accepted as a life-changing event, and, as such would be classified as a consumption activity of higher involvement than most consumption activities discussed within the marketing literature. The research employs an interpretivist qualitative methodology and adopts a multiple method constructivist approach to searching for, gathering and analysing data. This methodology is employed to accommodate the exploratory objectives of the study, and the personal and life-changing nature of migration. From an extensive literature review of migration and marketing three classic marketing theories were selected as guiding frameworks for the collection and analysis of data: (1) Firat and Dholakia‟s (1982) four dimensions of consumption patterns; (2) Rogers‟ (1963) theory of adoption; and (3) Sheth, Newman, and Gross‟ (1991) theory of consumption values. As there is great diversity in the source of Australian immigrants a purposeful sampling technique was employed to provide interpretable data. Immigrant families from the Italian regions of Abruzzi-Molise were selected as this group have a number of characteristics of value to this study. The characteristics include: a considerable gap exists between the consumption patterns of their natal and host communities; sufficient time has passed to allow the original immigrants and their families to reflect on their acculturative journey; and they still maintain strong links with their natal communities. Multiple qualitative techniques were employed during primary data collection. Primary data was collected in both Italy and Australia to gain a natal and host perspective. An iterative investigative approach was employed to compare primary and secondary work, to discover different perspectives, and to identify emergent themes. The major finding is that migration is a consumption activity that cannot be classified within the „textbook‟ convenience, shopping, or specialty product classification. Migration is not just the journey from one place to another; it is the journey from one set of consumption patterns to another. The costs and benefits of migration cannot be fully measured in financial terms and, for many, the evaluation process is an ongoing and cumulative process. Migration is a liminal process where the migrant must separate themself from their natal community and then establish themselves in a host community. Therefore, migration involves the establishment of an old-new hyphenated identity; hyphenated to indicate a life in two-parts. Migration involves the choices of what possessions to divest and what to keep, a passage, and then the acquiring of new possessions. However, unlike less involved consumption activities, all future consumption activities are a consequence of the migratory decision. Therefore in addition to the convenience, shopping, and specialty consumption activities the researcher calls for a new classification „seminal consumption activities‟. This study identifies that migration has three distinct time zones pre-migration, migration, and post-migration. Each of the time zones correlates with a respective stage of the buyer decision process pre-purchase, purchase and product delivery, and post purchase. Furthermore, a number of other three part marketing concepts demonstrate a relationship to this process: the three temporal types of involvement (situational, response, and enduring involvement); the three stages of liminality (pre-liminality, liminality, and post liminality; and the three decision qualities (search, experience, and credence decision qualities). The relationships are discussed in detail within the thesis. The seminal nature of migration and the acculturative reflections of the participants benefited one of the guiding theories. As a result, the Sheth et al (1991) theory of consumption values is advanced, new qualities of value3 are uncovered and a number of theoretical and practical gaps are discussed. An emergent conceptual framework that extends the Sheth et al. (1990) theory is discussed and presented. The thesis supports scholars who argue that there is a relationship between values1 and value2 for money. It also supports those who propose that whilst a person‟s values1 are enduring, estimations and assessments of value2 are more situational dependent. The enduring nature of values1 was displayed through the practise and preservation of natal consumption activities, and, the situation nature of value2 was displayed through the creation of a value2 hierarchy of consumption activities. Exploring this seminal consumption activity and the acculturation of Italian-Australians uncovered a number of insights that are important to marketers. However, they are particularly important to marketers operating in a multi-cultural marketplace. Marketers, like other members of a society, are often enculturated to the consumption activities of the dominant ethnic group; as such they can be blind to the dynamics and opportunities of a multi-cultural marketplace. This thesis highlights that the acculturation process is a two-way process where the attractive consumption activities of migrants are retained, and, then often adopted by members of the host society. Migration is generally accepted as a life-changing event, however, in multi-cultural societies, like Australia, migration is also society-changing event. Therefore, migration can be a seminal event at both an individual and a societal level; characteristics which are particularly rewarding to marketers.
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Dewhirst, Catherine Marguerita-Maria. "Ethnic identity in Italo-Australian family history : a case study of Giovanni Pullè, his legacies and his transformations of ethnicity over 125 years." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003.
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, Australia became a destination for hundreds and thousands of Italians as a result of Italy's first modem diaspora. Those who immigrated between the 1850s and 1914 came from diverse
backgrounds - socially, culturally, politically, economically, regionally and linguistically. For a minority group, their regional diversity was still quite vast. While in Australia this earlier group was numerically minute in terms of those received by other countries and in comparison with the second half of the twentieth century, these Italians represented a strongly visual and vocal presence in colonial and post-Federation society. Indeed, increasing demographically at a higher rate than any other migrant group after the British (Anglo-Celtic immigrants) at the tum of the twentieth century, Italian migrants offered a new social and economic component in Australia, becoming entwined into the fabric of a developing nation (Castles et al. 1992; Jupp 1988c; Templeton 1998). More
than a century since, Australian society has undergone numerous transformations from its development as a nation and in response to world events. The lives of Italian migrants and their descendants bear witness to many of these changes. But, both historical and theoretical approaches fail to explain the significance of the inheritances from a migrant past. This research project takes up the task of examining the legacies of the Italo-Australian presence during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the impact these migrants made on, and their response to, the trajectories of Australian migration history since the 1870s until today. In the process, it reflects the evolution of Italian ethnicity.
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au, Casella2@westnet com, and Antonio Casella. "An Olive Branch for Sante (A novel) ; and The Italian Diaspora in Australia and Representations of Italy and Italians in Australian Narrative." Murdoch University, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20070427.120048.
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This PhD presentation comprises two pieces of work:
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The Italian Diaspora in Australia and Representations of Italy and Italians in Australian Narrative ( Research thesis)
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An Olive Branch for Sante (A novel)
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In the Introduction of my research titled: Diaspora: A Theoretical Review, I look at the evolution of diasporic Studies and how the great movements of people that have occurred in the past one hundred and fifty years have altered our perception of what is undoubtedly a global phenomenon.
In Chapter One, which I have titled: In Search of an Italian Diaspora in Australia, I consider the kinds of socio-cultural nuclei that have evolved among the Italian population of Australia, out of the mass migration which occurred largely in the post war years. I discuss Italian migration as a whole, the historical and political conditions which brought about mass migration and the subsequent dispersion of Italian nationals, their regrouping into various clusters and how these fit into the patchwork that is the contemporary Australian society. Finally I review the conditions in the host country which facilitated or hindered particular socio-cultural formations and how these may differ from those occurring in other countries
Chapter Two deals with, The Narrative of Non-Italian Writers. The chapter looks at the images and myths of Italy perpetrated in the literature written by English-speaking authors over the centuries. I begin with the legacy left by British writers such as E.M. Forster, then move on to Australian writers of non-Italian background, such as Judah Waten, Nino Culotta (John O' Grady) and Helen Garner. In Chapter Three: Italo-Australian Writers, I focus on two writers: Venero Armanno and Melina Marchetta, both born in Australia of Italian parents. This section ties in with the earlier discourse on the continuity of the Italian Diaspora in Australia, into the second and subsequent generations.
In Chapter Four, titled: Literature of Nostalgia: The Long Journey, I will reflect upon my own journey as a writer, beginning with my earlier work, including the short stories and the plays, and concluding with a close look at the present novel, which is a companion piece to the research.
The novel complements the research in that it deals with the eternal issues of migration: displacement, change and identity. The protagonists are two young people: Ira-Jane and Sante. The first is not a migrant, but she is touched by migration, insofar as an old Italian couple play grandparents to her, in the early years of her life. When they return to Sicily the child is left with her neglectful and unstable mother. At age twenty-four Ira-Jane goes to Sicily on an assignment, and there she tries to get in touch with her 'grandparents'. She meets up with eighteen-year-old Sante who turns out to be her half brother. The novel's structure juxtaposes two countries, two cultures, two way of looking at the world. It sets up a series of contrasts: the old society and the new, past and present, tradition and innovation, stability and change, repression and freedom. The end of the novel proposes a symbolic bridging between two countries, which are similar in some ways, very different in others. It offers not a solution but a different approach to the eternal dilemma of people living in a diaspora, inhabiting an indefinite space between two countries and for whom home will always be somewhere else.
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Casella, Antonio. "An olive branch for Sante (a novel) ; and, The Italian diaspora in Australia and representations of Italy and Italians in Australian narrative." Thesis, Casella, Antonio (2006) An olive branch for Sante (a novel) ; and, The Italian diaspora in Australia and representations of Italy and Italians in Australian narrative. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/507/.
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This PhD presentation comprises two pieces of work:
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The Italian Diaspora in Australia and Representations of Italy and Italians in Australian Narrative (Research thesis)
II
An Olive Branch for Sante (A novel)
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In the Introduction of my research titled: Diaspora: A Theoretical Review, I look at the evolution of diasporic Studies and how the great movements of people that have occurred in the past one hundred and fifty years have altered our perception of what is undoubtedly a global phenomenon.
In Chapter One, which I have titled: In Search of an Italian Diaspora in Australia, I consider the kinds of socio-cultural nuclei that have evolved among the Italian population of Australia, out of the mass migration which occurred largely in the post war years. I discuss Italian migration as a whole, the historical and political conditions which brought about mass migration and the subsequent dispersion of Italian nationals, their regrouping into various clusters and how these fit into the patchwork that is the contemporary Australian society. Finally I review the conditions in the host country which facilitated or hindered particular socio-cultural formations and how these may differ from those occurring in other countries.
Chapter Two deals with, The Narrative of Non-Italian Writers. The chapter looks at the images and myths of Italy perpetrated in the literature written by English-speaking authors over the centuries. I begin with the legacy left by British writers such as E.M. Forster, then move on to Australian writers of non-Italian background, such as Judah Waten, Nino Culotta (John O' Grady) and Helen Garner. In Chapter Three: Italo-Australian Writers, I focus on two writers: Venero Armanno and Melina Marchetta, both born in Australia of Italian parents. This section ties in with the earlier discourse on the continuity of the Italian Diaspora in Australia, into the second and subsequent generations.
In Chapter Four, titled: Literature of Nostalgia: The Long Journey, I will reflect upon my own journey as a writer, beginning with my earlier work, including the short stories and the plays, and concluding with a close look at the present novel, which is a companion piece to the research.
The novel complements the research in that it deals with the eternal issues of migration: displacement, change and identity. The protagonists are two young people: Ira-Jane and Sante. The first is not a migrant, but she is touched by migration, insofar as an old Italian couple play grandparents to her, in the early years of her life. When they return to Sicily the child is left with her neglectful and unstable mother. At age twenty-four Ira-Jane goes to Sicily on an assignment, and there she tries to get in touch with her 'grandparents'. She meets up with eighteen-year-old Sante who turns out to be her half brother. The novel's structure juxtaposes two countries, two cultures, two way of looking at the world. It sets up a series of contrasts: the old society and the new, past and present, tradition and innovation, stability and change, repression and freedom. The end of the novel proposes a symbolic bridging between two countries, which are similar in some ways, very different in others. It offers not a solution but a different approach to the eternal dilemma of people living in a diaspora, inhabiting an indefinite space between two countries and for whom home will always be somewhere else.
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Casella, Antonio. "An olive branch for Sante (a novel) ; and, The Italian diaspora in Australia and representations of Italy and Italians in Australian narrative." Casella, Antonio (2006) An olive branch for Sante (a novel) ; and, The Italian diaspora in Australia and representations of Italy and Italians in Australian narrative. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/507/.
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This PhD presentation comprises two pieces of work:
I
The Italian Diaspora in Australia and Representations of Italy and Italians in Australian Narrative (Research thesis)
II
An Olive Branch for Sante (A novel)
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In the Introduction of my research titled: Diaspora: A Theoretical Review, I look at the evolution of diasporic Studies and how the great movements of people that have occurred in the past one hundred and fifty years have altered our perception of what is undoubtedly a global phenomenon.
In Chapter One, which I have titled: In Search of an Italian Diaspora in Australia, I consider the kinds of socio-cultural nuclei that have evolved among the Italian population of Australia, out of the mass migration which occurred largely in the post war years. I discuss Italian migration as a whole, the historical and political conditions which brought about mass migration and the subsequent dispersion of Italian nationals, their regrouping into various clusters and how these fit into the patchwork that is the contemporary Australian society. Finally I review the conditions in the host country which facilitated or hindered particular socio-cultural formations and how these may differ from those occurring in other countries.
Chapter Two deals with, The Narrative of Non-Italian Writers. The chapter looks at the images and myths of Italy perpetrated in the literature written by English-speaking authors over the centuries. I begin with the legacy left by British writers such as E.M. Forster, then move on to Australian writers of non-Italian background, such as Judah Waten, Nino Culotta (John O' Grady) and Helen Garner. In Chapter Three: Italo-Australian Writers, I focus on two writers: Venero Armanno and Melina Marchetta, both born in Australia of Italian parents. This section ties in with the earlier discourse on the continuity of the Italian Diaspora in Australia, into the second and subsequent generations.
In Chapter Four, titled: Literature of Nostalgia: The Long Journey, I will reflect upon my own journey as a writer, beginning with my earlier work, including the short stories and the plays, and concluding with a close look at the present novel, which is a companion piece to the research.
The novel complements the research in that it deals with the eternal issues of migration: displacement, change and identity. The protagonists are two young people: Ira-Jane and Sante. The first is not a migrant, but she is touched by migration, insofar as an old Italian couple play grandparents to her, in the early years of her life. When they return to Sicily the child is left with her neglectful and unstable mother. At age twenty-four Ira-Jane goes to Sicily on an assignment, and there she tries to get in touch with her 'grandparents'. She meets up with eighteen-year-old Sante who turns out to be her half brother. The novel's structure juxtaposes two countries, two cultures, two way of looking at the world. It sets up a series of contrasts: the old society and the new, past and present, tradition and innovation, stability and change, repression and freedom. The end of the novel proposes a symbolic bridging between two countries, which are similar in some ways, very different in others. It offers not a solution but a different approach to the eternal dilemma of people living in a diaspora, inhabiting an indefinite space between two countries and for whom home will always be somewhere else.
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Iuliano, Susanna. "Constructing Italian ethnicity : a comparative study of two Italian language newspapers in Australia and Canada, 1947-1957." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22595.
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This thesis is broadly concerned with how an ethnic group defines itself through the medium of the press. It contends that newspapers do more than simply 'reflect' the experience of ethnic groups, they in fact help to 'construct' ethnic identity.The specific focus of this study is the Italian language press and its attempts to shape the ideals of italianita of Italian migrants in Canada and Australia in the immediate post-war period. This work is based on two newspapers, Montreal's Il Cittadino Canadese and La Fiamma published in Sydney, New South Wales. All available editions from the decade 1947 to 1957 are examined in order to determine which symbols and causes were used to promote Italian ethnic cohesiveness.
In the course of this thesis, it is argued that La Fiamma used religion as the basis of its ideal of italianita, while the Italo-Canadian paper Il Cittadino Canadese made the issue of Italian political representation in Canadian government structures the basis of its quest to unite Italian migrants into an ethnic 'community'. Some possible reasons for the difference in focus between the two newspapers are presented in the conclusion. Also, suggestions are made for future comparative research between Italian ethnic communities in Canada and Australia which may help to better explain the differences laid bare in this paper.
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Fasson, Anna <1990>. "IMMIGRAZIONE ITALIANA IN AUSTRALIA." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/5514.
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Questa idea di tesi nasce dall’esperienza di tirocinio in Australia a Melbourne presso l’ente ENAS (Ente Nazionale Assistenza Sociale) che nemmeno io sapevo fino all’ultimo fosse stato possibile, una sorpresa per me e le persone che mi sono state vicino.
Il lavoro affidatomi riguardava il sostegno delle persone italo-australiane. Gli utenti erano per la maggior parte anziani, quasi tutti trasferiti in Australia dopo il 1950, grazie all’accordo con i rispettivi governi o più semplicemente per seguire la propria famiglia o i propri compagni alla ricerca di una vita migliore.
È proprio da qui che ho deciso di partire ad analizzare questo fenomeno dell’immigrazione, appassionandomi alle storie di coloro che avevo il piacere di incontrare, intervistando alcuni di essi e capendo i diversi motivi che ancora oggi tengono legate queste persone a questa terra. Successivamente mi ritrovai a riflettere sulla situazione moderna dei giovani e decisi così di ampliare la mia analisi e di capire se infondo l’emigrazione italiana degli anni cinquanta e sessanta può essere in qualche modo equiparata a quella che oggi vede protagonisti nuovi giovani, pronti a lasciare la terra natale in cerca di qualcosa di migliore.
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Miazzo, Francesca <1991>. "Trust: caso italiano e australiano a confronto." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/10156.
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La tesi vuole essere un confronto tra l'istituto del trust in Italia, analizzandone la struttura e l'impatto delle recenti modifiche soprattutto in materia fiscale, ed elaborare poi un confronto con la realtà australiana, evidenziando eventuali differenze in ambito strutturale ed applicativo.
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Battiston, Simone. "History and collective memory of the Italian migrant workers' organisation FILEF in 1970s Melbourne /." Access full text, 2004. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/thesis/public/adt-LTU20070823.143852/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--La Trobe University, 2004.Research. "A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, [to the] School of European and Historical Studies, Faculty of Humanities, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-197). Also available via the World Wide Web.
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Stanaway, Fiona. "Health and ageing in older male Italian-born immigrants." Thesis, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13154.
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Coppe, Raelee Sharon, and edu au jillj@deakin edu au mikewood@deakin edu au wildol@deakin edu au kimg@deakin. "Correlates of Screening Mammography for Italian and Anglo-Australian Women." Deakin University. School of Psychology, 2001. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20040825.105605.
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The first aim of the research was to determine the applicability of certain variables from the Health Belief Model (HBM), the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA), the risk dimensions from the Psychometric Paradigm, the Common-Sense Model of Illness Representations and the Locus of Control to Italian womens beliefs and behaviours in relation to screening mammography. These models have predominantly been derived and evaluated with English-speaking persons. The study used quantitative and qualitative methods to enable explanation of research-driven and participant-driven issues.
The second aim was to include Italian women in health behaviour research and to contrast the Italian sample with the Anglo-Australian sample to determine if differences exist in relation to their beliefs. In Australia many studies in health behaviour research do not include women whose first language is not English.
The third aim was to evaluate the Anti-Cancer Council of Victorias (ACCV) Community Language Program (CLP) by: (a) identifying the strengths and weaknesses of the program as seen by the participants; and (b) assessing the impact of the program on womens knowledge and beliefs about breast cancer, early detection of breast cancer, self-reported and intended breast screening behaviours. The CLP is an information service that uses womens first language to convey information to women whose first language is not English. The CLP was designed to increase knowledge about breast and cervical cancer.
The research used a pre-test-intervention-post-test design with 174 Italian-born and 138 Anglo-Australian women aged 40 years and over. Interviews for the Italian sample were conducted in Italian. The intervention was an information session that related to breast health and screening mammography. Demographic variables were collected in the Pre-Test only. Qualitative open-ended questions that related specifically to the information session were collected in the Post-Test phase of the study. Direct logistic regression was used with the participants beliefs and behaviours to identify the relevant variables for language (Italian speaking and English-speaking), attendance to an information session, mammography screening and breast self-examination (BSE) behaviour. Pre- and Post-Test comparisons were conducted using chi-square tests for the non-parametric data and paired sample t-tests for the parametric data.
Differences were found between the Italian and Anglo-Australian women in relation to their beliefs about breast cancer screening. The Italian women were: (1) more likely to state that medical experts understood the causes of breast cancer; (2) more likely to feel that they had less control over their personal risk of getting breast cancer; (3) more likely to be upset and frightened by thinking about breast cancer; (4) less likely to perceive breast cancer as serious; (4) more likely to only do what their doctor told them to do; and (5) less likely to agree that there were times when a person has cancer and they dont know it.
A pattern emerged for the Italian and Anglo-Australian women from the logistic regression analyses. The Italian women were much more likely to comply with medical authority and advice. The Anglo-Australian women were more likely to feel that they had some control over their health. Specifically, the risk variable dread was more applicable to the Italian womens behaviour and internal locus of control variable was more relevant to the Anglo-Australian women. The qualitative responses also differed for the two samples. The Italian womens comments were more general, less specific, and more limited than that of the Anglo-Australian women. The Italian women talked about learning how to do BSE whereas the Anglo-Australian women said that attending the session had reminded them to do BSE more regularly.
The key findings and contributions of the present research were numerous. The focus on one cultural group ensured comprehensive analyses, as did the inclusion of an adequate sample size to enable the use of multivariate statistics. Separating the Italian and Anglo-Australian samples in the analyses provided theoretical implications that would have been overlooked if the two groups were combined. The use of both qualitative and quantitative data capitalised on the strengths of both techniques. The inclusion of an Anglo-Australian group highlighted key theoretical findings, differences between the two groups and unique contributions made by both samples during the collection of the qualitative data. The use of a pre-test-intervention-post-test design emphasised the reticence of the Italian sample to participate and talk about breast cancer and confirmed and validated the consistency of the responses across the two interviews for both samples. The inclusion of non-cued responses allowed the researcher to identify the key salient issues relevant to the two groups. The limitations of the present research were the lack of many women who were not screening and reliance on self-report responses, although few differences were observed between the Pre- and Post-Test comparisons.
The theoretical contribution of the HBM and the TRA variables was minimal in relation to screening mammography or attendance at the CLP. The applicability of these health behaviour theories may be less relevant for women today as they clearly knew the benefits of and the seriousness of breast cancer screening. The present research identified the applicability of the risk variables to the Italian women and the relevance of the locus of control variables to the Anglo-Australian women. Thus, clear cultural differences occurred between the two groups.
The inclusion of the illness representations was advantageous as the responses highlighted ideas and personal theories salient to the women not identified by the HBM. The use of the illness representations and the qualitative responses further confirmed the relevance of the risk variables to the Italian women and the locus of control variables to the Anglo-Australian women.
Attendance at the CLP did not influence the women to attend for mammography screening. Behavioural changes did not occur between the Pre- and Post-Test interviews. Small incremental changes as defined by the TTM and the stages of change may have occurred. Key practical implications for the CLP were identified. Improving the recruitment methods to gain a higher proportion of women who do not screen is imperative for the CLP promoters. The majority of the Italian and Anglo-Australian women who attended the information sessions were women who screen. The fact that Italian women do not like talking or thinking about cancer presents a challenge to promoters of the CLP. The key theoretical finding that Italian women dread breast cancer but comply with their doctor provides clear strategies to improve attendance at mammography screening. In addition, the inclusion of lay health advisors may be one way of increasing attendance to the CLP by including Italian women already attending screening and likely to have attended a CLP session.
The present research identified the key finding that improving Anglo-Australian attendance at an information session is related to debunking the myth surrounding familial risk of breast cancer and encouraging the Anglo-Australian women to take more control of their health. Improving attendance for Italian women is related to reducing the fear and dread of breast cancer and building on the compliance pattern with medical authority. Therefore, providing an information session in the target language is insufficient to attract non-screeners to the session and then to screen for breast cancer.
Suggestions for future research in relation to screening mammography were to include variables from more than one theory or model, namely the risk, locus of control and illness representations. The inclusion of non-cued responses to identify salient beliefs is advantageous. In addition, it is imperative to describe the profile of the cultural sample in detail, include detailed descriptions of the translation process and be aware of the tendency of Italian women to acquiesce with medical authority.
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Chiro, Giancarlo. "The activation and evaluation of Italian language and culture in a group of tertiary students of Italian ancestry in Australia /." Title page, abstract and table of contents only, 1998. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phc541.pdf.
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Bal, Louise, and n/a. "THE MAINTENANCE OF THE FRIULAN-ITALIAN COMMUNITY IN AUSTRALIA." University of Canberra. Education, 2001. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20090609.081955.
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The aim of the study was to develop an in-depth understanding of the migration
experiences of the Italian community of Australia, with a case study of the regional
Friulan community of Sydney. For the ways in which people identify themselves at
different times and in different environments may not always be consistent. The purpose
of the study was to add to the exploration of the diversity, cultural variety and richness
cultural communities have brought to Australia. The study set out to fulfill an important
function in adding to the accounts of the diversity of ethnic groups in Australia, their
structure and cultural backgrounds and the values of family members. Since culture is
concerned with meaning, there is of course a very close relationship between culture and
language, through which kin relationships, obligations and duties are expressed and
appropriate behaviour defined. It is that meaning and relationship that led me to
investigate the Italian and Friulan communities.
The study took on the form of an ethnography enabling me, the researcher, to participate
in order to develop an in depth understanding of the experiences of the Italian migrants,
in particular the Friulan community. The data was collected by using key informant
interviewing. The participants were encouraged to freely reflect on their past and present
experiences to enable them to make a comparative analysis of their experiences in
Australia and in their country of origin. This enabled the migrants to take on the role of
culturally knowledgeable informants supplying information which was significant to them
and which reflected their perceptions of their life experiences. The data has been
faithfully recorded to represent the immigrant's point of view.
The study revealed that many of the first and second-generation are highly involved with
their Italian heritage and operate comfortably with a bicultural ethnic identity. The
second generation have reconstructed the Italian-Australian family, thus changing the
Italian community and providing links between the Italian, the Anglo-Australian and the
other ethnic communities. Ethnicity is continually negotiated and is a constant source of
transformation for people of immigrant background. If Italian-Australians continue to
associate, both through family and cultural practices then the Italian-Australian identity
will continue. The big question is what will happen in the third and fourth Italian-Australian
generation. It is here that the question of ethnic and national identity becomes
highly relevant.
Cultural diversity presents challenging issues for Australia: what it means to be an
Australian; the relationship between national and personal identities; identifying and
working in both the cohesive and divisive forces in a multicultural society; and the form
and flavour of a future republic. None of these issues are new, yet all are of immediate
concern, and the symbolic importance of the approach of the twenty-first century invests
them with particular meaning.
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Elmetti, Valentina <1987>. "Italian as Foreign Language: the situation in Victoria, Australia." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/2940.
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Lo stato del Victoria, Australia trova la lingua Italiana ben radicata nella società e nel sistema scolastico. Come conseguenza a un passato di migrazioni e scelte politiche e economiche, dove si colloca la lingua Italiana nelle scuole del Victoria? QUanto e' insegnata, ma sopratutto come e' insegnata? che tipo di lingua e di cultura vienre trasmessa agli studenti? Qual'è il futuro della lingua italiana come lingua straniera in questo stato? Queste sono le domande alle quali il nostro lavoro cerca di dare una risposta.
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Bonanno, Rosaria. "The existence of standard Italian in Australia and its promotion since immigration /." View thesis, 1999. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20031119.093049/index.html.
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Thesis (M.A) -- University of Western Sydney, Macarthur, 1999."University of Western Sydney, Macarthur in completion of Master of Arts Degree in Interpreting and Translation, 1999" Bibliography: leaves 61-63.
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Cosentino, Silvia <1990>. "L'emigrazione italiana in Australia nel secondo dopoguerra." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/7548.
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La tesi si pone lo scopo di studiare l'emigrazione italiana in Australia nel periodo del secondo dopoguerra. Analizza le cause e le caratteristiche dei movimenti migratori, l'adattamento e l'integrazione degli immigrati italiani in Australia attraverso lo studio del ruolo da loro svolto nella costruzione del paese, i tratti tipici della comunità e delle associazioni italiane. Vengono inoltre esaminati il ruolo delle istituzioni ecclesiastiche nella comunità italiana e le caratteristiche della seconda generazione di immigrati. Infine, verranno presi in esame alcuni casi specifici delle esperienze di emigrati in Australia attraverso interviste dirette.
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Panìco, Daniela. "Bilingual conversations and language maintenance: The case of two Italian-Australian families." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27490.
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This thesis explores bilingual practices within the everyday interactions of two Italian-Australian families living in Sydney. In these homes one parent is a speaker of Italian while the other parent is a speaker of English, with both English and Italian spoken daily to the children. The study is concerned with the ways in which language choices are deployed by parents and children in mundane family conversations and, especially, within practices aimed at maintaining Italian and bilingualism in the home.
The investigation draws on data collected through audio and video recordings of family mealtimes and siblings’ playtime. It employs an approach in which Conversation Analysis is applied to the study of bilingual talk in order to explore the linguistic activities of participants and their language choices as negotiated on a moment-by-moment basis.
Findings show that distinctive family language policies characterize the two homes, namely, a strict separation between the two languages in one family and a flexible use of the two languages in the other. In both families, the linguistic practices of the Italian-speaking parents are crucial in relation to the implementation of the use of Italian by the children in conversation. In particular, the detailed sequential analysis reveals that the Italian-speaking parents employ linguistic and other semiotic resources to enact discourse strategies which differently constrain the language choices of the children. In the first participant family, parental discourse strategies denoting consistency of choice of Italian and intensive use of response-eliciting formats, such as questions, are found as highly constraining on language choice. In the second family, the parental use of Italian in alternation with English and the selection of both response-eliciting and non-response-eliciting formats, such as declaratives, are found as low- or non-constraining on the language use of the children. Moreover, in the two families, the linguistic behaviour of the eldest siblings highly contributes either to support the use of Italian in the home or to shift conversations towards English.
The findings point to family bilingual practices as collaboratively constructed and accomplished by participants and to everyday family talk as the locus of language maintenance or language shift. By focussing on the micro level of family interactions and on bilingualism as interactionally achieved, this study expands the line of research on family bilingualism and family language policy according to a conversation analytical perspective.
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Bonanno, Rosaria, of Western Sydney Macarthur University, and Faculty of Education and Languages. "The Existence of standard Italian in Australia and its promotion since immigration." THESIS_FEL_XXX_Bonanno_R.xml, 2000. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/728.
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Language is a form of human expression. It is the way people communicate with one another to express thoughts, ideas, decisions, desires and essentially to relay information successfully. There are numerous types of language, perhaps the most common of which are the written and spoken languages. Other forms include sign language, Braille and even primitive smoke signals. The term language comes via French, from the Latin word lingua meaning tongue. Even today, the spoken language is often referred to as tongue. It is not known exactly when language began or even how it began, although a common theory is that it began as an imitation of natural sounds of animals such as grunts, groans, whistles and barks. What is known, however, is that language changes everyday as it is influenced by human and historical changes. Words that exist in our vocabulary today did not exist for example a hundred years ago. Nor, perhaps, will they exist a hundred years from now. This is the same for all languages around the world, including the Italian language. Since the beginning of Italian history, Italians have spoken innumerable varieties of language. Discussions concerning these countless varieties could continue incessantly; and for this reason it is important to outline immediately the aim of this discussion. Throughout the ensuing chapters, all information gathered and analysed, has been done in order to achieve one aim: to discuss the existence of a standard Italian language in Australia as well as various dialects and regional varieties, and to analyse its promotion since Italian immigration to Australia. There is an immense wealth of information about Italian and English languages and so it is my objective not to be lost in general discussion but rather to adhere to my main aim as closely as possibleMaster of Arts in Interpreting and Translation
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Tuan, Sara <1992>. "Il mantenimento della lingua e della cultura italiana in Australia." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/10589.
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In questa tesi intendo parlare del mantenimento della lingua e cultura italiana in Australia, in particolare a Brisbane attraverso l'associazionismo, quali siano le associazioni presenti, quale sia il loro scopo, le attività che promuovono, quali sono le persone interessate e perché. In particolare vi esporrò le riflessioni maturate dalla mia esperienza di lavoro di campo in una di queste associazioni che mi hanno permesso di conoscere più a fondo queste realtà, entrando a conoscenza di una realtà, secondo me, sconosciuta da parte degli italiani presenti in Italia, scoprendo un vivo interesse da parte sia di figli di immigrati italiani di seconda e terza generazione sia di australiani di altre etnie di non ero a conoscenza prima di questa esperienza di ricerca sul campo, che ha suscitato la mia curiosità e il mio interesse per riuscire meglio a comprendere quali fossero le ragioni che portassero gli australiani ad essere così coinvolti in attività legate alla lingua e cultura italiane.
Questo tema credo sia importante per comprendere la passione, l'interesse, l'amore che dimostrano persone che abitano anche in un luogo così distante dall'Italia, com'è l'Australia, facendo emergere l'importanza che hanno la lingua, la cultura, la storia italiane, tanto da essere considerate da popoli così distanti. La cultura italiana, così diversa in base alle numerose regioni presenti in questa nazione, si uniscono e si amalgamano in Australia, dove le differenze non sono più ostacolo e fonte di scontri e disaccordi, ma creano unione e aggregazione tra australiani e italiani, e tra gli stessi discendenti di immigrati italiani di seconda e terza generazione che si incontrano per parlare di questo lontano paese da cui i loro genitori, nonni e bisnonni provenivano.
Qui intendo porre una riflessione sul perché gli australiani siano così interessati alla lingua e cultura italiana, quali siano le caratteristiche che più affascinano gli australiani dell'Italia e cosa li spinga ad amare così tanto questo paese, quali sono le attività che le associazioni italiane in Australia promuovono per far conoscere l'Italia agli australiani, come vengono insegnate la lingua e la cultura italiane in Australia, in particolare nelle scuole primarie e secondarie, dove ho svolto la mia ricerca.
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Furlan, Rafaello. "The Form of Houses Built by Italian Migrants in Post-World war II Brisbane, Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365639.
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This thesis begins with an enquiry into the way the house is the physical expression of interacting cultural factors. Despite views emphasizing the determinant influence of culture on the house form, an investigation of the literature on architectural sociology reveals that, in the contemporary development of the built environment, the relationship between house form and human behaviour and/or activities, as manifestation of the users’ cultural needs, was treated as secondary. This study provides a conceptual framework based on cross-cultural studies and architectural sociology to understand how first generation Italian migrants in Brisbane have influenced the form of a specific typology of dwelling, the archetypal ‘house on a quarter-acre block’, in the post WWII period, in response to cultural needs. Qualitative data collected from the testimonies of Italian migrants in conjunction with evidence left from four houses, were analysed to answer the research question: in what ways did Italian migrants influence the form of their houses built in Brisbane in the post WWII period, and what were the forces behind, and outcomes of, this influence? The findings revealed that the architectural form of the house is influenced by the need to continue architectural traditions. The spatial form of Italian houses was influenced by sociocultural factors and urbanization patterns. These are the lack of public urban spaces like a town square traditionally utilized by Italian migrants in their native built environment for performing social activities. This insight means that migration to another land represents a fundamental disruption of social activities and, in this regard, the spatial form of the house could be conceptualised as a means of re-establishing and enhancing social interactions.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith School of Environment
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Refatto, Antonella 1967. "Contact phenomena between Veneto, Italian and English in the third generation in Australia." Monash University, Dept. of Linguistics, 2002. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/7734.
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Olcelli, Laura. "Questions of authority: Italo-Australian travel narratives of the long nineteenth century." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12581.
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This thesis investigates Italo-Australian literary travel exchanges throughout the long nineteenth century. The 1800s witnessed major transformations in Australian overseas travel: it gradually evolved from a replica of the Continental Grand Tour of the British, whose goals were the cities of Rome, Florence and Venice, to a more idiosyncratic cosmopolitan experience, either touristic or professional. Moreover, it was during the second half of this century that both Italy and Australia underwent crucial political upheavals; these resulted in shifts from colonial and subjugated status, to self-government and ultimately independence. This thesis connects the geographical, political and socio-cultural contexts of Italy and Australia by considering their interlaced odeporic library, produced at a significant time in history. It looks at key texts compiled by Italians in Australia, and Australians in Italy: these chiefly consist of voyage accounts, but also include the records of explorers, missionaries, scientists and migrants coming from the Italian peninsula. About one third of the primary sources are unpublished travel diaries compiled by the first Victorian women visitors to the Bel Paese, which have been largely neglected by scholarship thus far. This examination pinpoints the enduring significance of Italy in travel-related terms, showing how this destination was adapted from the map of eighteenth-century British Grand Tourists, to that of nineteenth-century Australian holiday makers. Most critically, it suggests that Italo-Australian peripatetic connections entail issues of authority, that emerge in the ways in which Italian and Australian travel writers displayed their authorship, cultural capital and national identification in relation to ‘the other country.’ Finally, it demonstrates how these are highly regulated by, and yet simultaneously challenge, British colonial hegemony.
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Tagliasacchi, Silvia <1975>. "Interculturalità e tutela linguistico-culturale. Le comunità italiane all'estero e il caso australiano." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2007. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/277/1/Tesi_Tagliasacchi.pdf.
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Tagliasacchi, Silvia <1975>. "Interculturalità e tutela linguistico-culturale. Le comunità italiane all'estero e il caso australiano." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2007. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/277/.
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Lombardo, Elisabetta <1990>. "Il trilinguismo degli immigrati italiani in Australia: il caso di Brisbane." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/8202.
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La tesi si propone di indagare gli aspetti formali e i principali fenomeni linguistici caratteristici della lingua parlata dagli immigrati di prima e seconda generazione a Brisbane, indagando in particolare sull'interferenza dell'inglese a tutti i livelli di analisi linguistica e sul processo di abbandono della lingua madre.
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Sommacal, Maddalena <1989>. "Italian wine on the Australian market: Casa Vinicola Zonin Case Study. Research based on on-trade." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/6100.
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In 2013, despite a 4.3% reduction in volumes, Italian wine exports exceeded 5 billion Euros, with an increase of circa 7.3% compared to 2012. It was a particularly encouraging result and the sign that international consumers appreciate one of the Made in Italy flagship products. Australia was one of the markets which experienced significant growth in Italian wine imports. In 2013 Italian wine exports to the Australian market did rise by 13.1% in terms of values with respect to 2012. A remarkable figure considering the role that this country has not only among the so-called New World Wine countries, but also among the Old World Wine ones.
The objective of this thesis is to analyze the Italian wine on the Australian market, especially by studying on-trade channel. The research was carried out through Casa Vinicola Zonin case study. Due to the leading role played by the company both at national and international level, it was possible to work out concrete strategy for the Australian market concerning the channel mentioned above.
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Totaro, Genevois Mariella. "Foreign policies for the diffusion of language and culture : the Italian experience in Australia." Monash University, Centre for European Studies, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/8828.
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Bartolameazzi, Marina <1987>. "Language through the Internet: a case study of Italian as foreign language in an Australian high-school." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/10166.
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This study briefly analyses the influence of the Internet on language teaching and learning and explores some of the most interesting tools and materials provided by the web. In particular, the resources described in the research have been used to plan a language-teaching unit for high school students, through a consistent use of the Internet and its tools. The aim of the study was to evaluate, using questionnaires, the influence that an Internet-based teaching unit could have on students’ motivation and attitude towards the target language and the lessons. The research also includes comments and impressions by the teachers of the classes that took part in the study. From the analysis of the results emerges that students’ attitude towards the subject did not change significantly and that teachers involved in the research have some concerns related to the excessive use of the Internet in class. Nevertheless the data also show how Internet-linked resources can be highly appreciated by both students and teachers.
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Sorelli, Matteo <1986>. "Le esportazioni di vino italiano in Australia: un'analisi attraverso sistemi di domanda." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/1688.
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McMullan, Peter. "From burden to benefit: Italian and German prisoners of war in Western Australia, 1943-1946." Thesis, McMullan, Peter (2020) From burden to benefit: Italian and German prisoners of war in Western Australia, 1943-1946. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2020. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/62425/.
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During the Second World War, Australia faced an extreme manpower shortage due to the requirements of its armed services, munitions production and agriculture. The federal government, having tried other sources of labour, was eventually forced to utilise Italian and German prisoners of war (POWs), interned in Australia, as additional workers. The option to employ POWs was allowed by the 1929 Geneva Convention, provided that this labour was not used for war purposes. The limited scholarly work available on POW employees in Australia deals predominantly with the eastern states. I analyse the decision to use almost 4000 Italian and German prisoners, transferred from POW camps in the eastern states and overseas, in Western Australia. I also show how the system worked in practice, and analyse the economic significance of the scheme. Western Australia’s greatest need for labour was in farm work and firewood supply. The army administered schemes under which POWs were employed in these tasks throughout the state’s agricultural regions. Over 3500 Italian and 300 German prisoners were used on the two projects. Army administrative centres were established in country towns, from where labour was distributed to employers after a vetting process.
The POW labour scheme proved economically and politically beneficial for Western Australia and financially advantageous for the federal government. Farmers were able to access cheap and experienced Italian labour, while the German POW workforce assisted the Forests Department in overcoming the state’s critical firewood shortage. Australian authorities accepted POW employment because it was fiscally self-sufficient and low maintenance, while country towns appreciated the army’s presence because it provided security and because money was spent in the towns The labour scheme also appears to have been relatively congenial for the prisoners, who were far removed from the war zones and were generally well treated by their hosts.
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Manni, Doranna <1996>. "Temporary Labour Migration: A Legal and Economic Analysis of Seasonal Workers. Study of the Italian and Australian Cases." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/19476.
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Il fenomeno dei lavoratori stagionali è ancor oggi un tema vasto e complesso. L’anno 2020, con la pandemia di Covid-19, ha rivelato come la temporanea sospensione degli impieghi svolti da questi lavoratori abbia comportato delle importanti perdite nelle economie dei Paesi di impiego.
Spesso non si considera il contributo apportato dal lavoro degli stagionali alle economie del Paese ospitante e del Paese d’origine e, allo stesso modo, si sottovalutano le condizioni di irregolarità e di maltrattamento a cui questi lavoratori vengono spesso sottoposti durante il viaggio e all’interno dell’ambiente lavorativo. Pertanto, questo lavoro di tesi si propone innanzitutto di presentare e analizzare gli strumenti di tutela in vigore per la protezione di questa fascia molto fragile di lavoratori nell’ambito del diritto internazionale e del diritto dell’Unione Europea. Successivamente si intende analizzare la rilevanza economica che il lavoro degli stagionali rappresenta sia nel Paese d’origine che nel Paese di impiego, focalizzando lo studio nell’ultimo capitolo sul caso italiano e su quello australiano, essendo il fenomeno dei lavoratori stagionali emblematico per entrambi i Paesi. Nella conclusione si contribuirà a suggerire degli spunti per tentare di colmare le lacune nella letteratura giuridica ed economica disponibile ad oggi.
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Simonetto, Alice <1997>. "Agreement in Heritage Morphology: Past Forms in Veneto Speakers from Australia and Canada." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/20480.
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The acquisition of functional morphology is one of the main challenges for second language learners (Lardiere, 1998, 2005; Slabakova, 2009), but very little is known about morphological representations in Heritage speakers, (Albirini et al., 2013; Montrul et al., 2008) needless to say in Veneto. The aim of the current study is to investigate the expression of subject-verb agreement in past tenses in Veneto Heritage Speakers Canadian and Australian-born.
In Veneto all verbs agree in person and number, and in the Passato Prossimo forms (with essere) also in gender. Contrariwise, agreement in English is not active in the past tense (except for the copula was/were). Hence, Veneto Heritage Speakers whose majority language is English, may find it difficult to master the agreement in the past. In order to describe the distribution and frequency of use of this phenomenon, 20 Veneto heritage speakers (7 Canadian and 13 Australian-born), aged between 54 and 68 years old participated in the study, further grouped according to their heritage language exposure (shorter vs. longer). Their performance has been compared with a group of 5 age-matched native speakers residents in the Veneto region.
Participants were video recorded and completed a language background questionnaire 3 oral tasks that elicited past forms: 1- picture narrative task with 23 verbs (13 targeting a perfective form, 10 an imperfect form); 2- picture description targeted simultaneous actions through; 3- semantic interpretation task. All of them adapted into Dialetto Veneto from the SPLLOC project http://www.splloc.soton.ac.uk/index.html.
Overall, results showed that participants only produced the Passato Prossimo (not the Imperfect form) with a defective past participle form. Moreover, a good amount of errors in subject/verb agreement concerned gender, where participants produced masculine instead of the target feminine, hence resorting to a default form to express agreement (Bruhn de Garavito, 2003). This was observed in both short and long exposure groups, surprisingly was more frequently in the latter even though they are more accurate in the semantic interpretation.
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Davis, Catherine. "Managing and imagining migration: The role of Facebook groups in the lives of “new” Italian migrants in Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17346.
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This thesis explores the role that Facebook groups play in the lives of the so called “new” wave of Italian migrants in Australia both pre- and post-migration. Over the last decade, especially since the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, large numbers of young Ita¬lians have been arriving in Australia, however little is known about their migratory experiences. Similarly, while scholars in the field of technology and migration have shown that online communication can facilitate the process of migration, it is still unclear whether it can also influence migrants’ expectations before they have even left their home countries. Therefore, in order to elucidate whether – ¬and how – Facebook groups shape pre-migration expectations and subsequent post-migration experiences, two data sources have been employed: a thematic analysis of the wallposts made to three public, user-created Facebook groups dedicated to “new” Italians in Australia, and in-depth interviews with members of these groups. Findings show that these Facebook groups are online communities where “new” Italian migrants come together at various stages of the migration process in order to prepare for, manage and imagine the experience of migrating to Australia. By joining Facebook groups prior to migrating, “new” Italian migrants can gain access to social support, relevant, practical information, and insider knowledge about how to prepare for everyday life in Australia and what to expect upon arrival. Likewise, belonging to Facebook groups can help “new” Italian migrants manage their post-migration experiences by providing them with opportunities for employment and socialisation, and for regaining social capital. Overall, the first-hand migration stories and images posted by those already in Australia construct a hyper-reality, that is, a space or window for pre-migrants to imagine what it is like to be an Italian migrant in Australia today and, in turn, shape realistic expectations
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Rubini, Luisa <1989>. "SUPPORTO PUBBLICO AL PROCESSO DI INTERNAZIONALIZZAZIONE DELLE IMPRESE Le Camere di Commercio italiane in Australia." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/6759.
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L’intensificarsi delle operazioni di scambio tra i paesi a livello globale ha reso il processo di internazionalizzazione decisivo per le imprese che devono affrontare la concorrenza derivante dai competitori esteri. A partire dagli anni Novanta gli andamenti dei flussi di investimenti diretti esteri sono aumentati a ritmi superiori rispetto al PIL e al commercio mondiale, coinvolgendo sia economie avanzate che paesi emergenti. Il ritardo dell’industria italiana a fronteggiare i cambiamenti mondiali evidenzia la necessità di un sostegno da parte del settore pubblico, il Sistema Paese, che agisce attraverso differenti enti, tra i quali assumono un ruolo rilevante le Camere di Commercio italiane all’estero. Il caso dell’attività camerale italiana in Australia cercherà di evidenziare se le azioni promozionali e i servizi offerti risultino utili alle imprese destinatarie.
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Iuliano, Susanna. "Sebben che siamo donne (although we are women) : a comparative study of Italian immigrant women in post-war Canada and Australia." Thesis, McGill University, 2001. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=38537.
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Understanding the lives of Italian women who migrated to Canada and Australia in the post-war period is the goal of this thesis. Although governments assigned women secondary roles as dependants and 'followers' in the migration process, I argue that Italian women were central, not marginal, to the migration and settlement experiences of Italian immigrants. By placing Italian women front and centre of this study, I contribute to a small but growing body of work that challenges the male-centred perspective of most literature on Italian-Canadian and Italian-Australian migration and ethnicity.This thesis is structured within a feminist framework and uses interdisciplinary methods to gather and interpret quantitative and qualitative information about the lives of Italian immigrant women in post-war Canada and Australia. Using government and church archives, personal interviews, ethnic newspapers, legal documents, marriage registers and participant observer fieldwork, I explore three major themes.
Firstly, I examine Italian immigrant women's understanding of power relations within their homes and workplaces. Rather than cast women as either passive victims or all-conquering heroines, I present the complexity of the sources of power and weakness in immigrant women's lives. I argue that Italian immigrant women had to cope with exploitation and disadvantage because of their class, gender and ethnic status. However, they responded to these challenges with resistance and resilience, and were able to affect change and wield power within certain constraints.
Secondly, I compare the experiences of migration and settlement for Italian immigrant women in Canada and Australia and show how women's experiences were united by common gender concerns. I found overwhelming similarities between the family lives and work experiences of Italian-Canadian and Italian-Australian immigrant women, and in the government policies and programs that attempted to direct their migration and settlement in the post-war period.
Finally, I examine how Italian immigrant women helped to construct what it means to be 'Italian' in post-war Canada and Australia. I show how gender roles assigned to, and chosen by, Italian-Canadian and Italian-Australian women, served as boundary markers for ethnic difference. Perceived differences in attitudes towards waged work, mothering, family responsibilities and sexuality were used by Italian immigrant women to distinguish themselves as members of an ethnic collective.
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Battiston, Simone, and SBattiston@groupwise swin edu au. "History and Collective Memory of the Italian Migrant Workers� Organisation FILEF in 1970s Melbourne." La Trobe University. School of European and Historical Studies, 2004. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au./thesis/public/adt-LTU20070823.143852.
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This doctoral dissertation seeks to investigate the reasons that lay behind the rise, success and
decline of the Italian-run migrant workers� organisation FILEF during the 1970s in
Melbourne by reviewing and discussing some significant historical events. It does so in light of the existing literature, archival data and a string of oral accounts gathered from former and current key FILEF members and collaborators. It is hereby offering a better understanding of an otherwise poorly researched area of the Italian-Australian left-wing grassroots organisations in post-war Australia. The thesis has been divided into two parts, including introduction and conclusion. Part One (Chapters 1-5) reviews the historical and political background (in both Italy and Australia) that favoured the establishment of FILEF in Australia, including Melbourne, in the early 1970s; Part Two (Chapters 6-9) presents an
analysis of the historical development and socio-political role of FILEF Melbourne between 1972 and 1980.
Chapter One reviews the theoretical context, the representation of the history of FILEF in
previous publications, primary and secondary sources, the research strategy and methodology. Chapters Two and Three anchor the history of FILEF Melbourne to their respective background in Italy and Australia. That is, Chapter Two examines the post-war Italian emigration and its politicising by the Italian Left; Chapter Three focuses on the postwar emigration of Italians to Australia and outlines a profile of the Italian-Australian community. Chapter Four maps the route of the Italian-Australian Left in the 1950s and 1960s, that is from Italia Libera to the Lega Italo-Australiana. Chapter Five reviews the circumstances that led the establishment of the PCI in Australia respectively.
Chapter Six examines the origins and grassroots activism of FILEF in Melbourne in the 1970s, especially by looking at three areas of activity: migrant press, migrant welfare and
migrant politics. Chapter Seven researches the vulnerability of FILEF to the pressures of
conservative quarters by recounting the �Italian communist move in� (1975) and the federal
funding cut (1976) episodes. Chapter Eight, thoroughly revisits the Salemi case (1977), while
Chapter Nine explores the effects of the case and Salemi�s deportation on FILEF towards the
end of the 1970s.
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SCORSOLINI, VALENTINA GIOVANNA. "TRADIZIONE CULTURALE E INSEGNAMENTO LINGUISTICO IN AUSTRALIA." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/40178.
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Alla luce del recente interesse verso l’insegnamento della lingua italiana all’estero, il presente elaborato esamina la storia della comunità italiana e dell’evoluzione della didattica dell’italiano nello stato del Victoria, in Australia. La tesi presenta inoltre i risultati della mia ricerca sull’influenza dei flussi migratori e delle politiche linguistiche australiane sull’insegnamento dell’italiano nelle scuole, descrivendo come la percezione della lingua italiana sia cambiata nell’immaginario australiano. Tale analisi storica mi ha permesso di formulare una valutazione critica e suggerimenti per migliorare le metodologie didattiche impiegate nei corsi di italiano nelle scuole secondarie del Victoria.In light of the growing interest towards Italian teaching abroad, the present dissertation investigates the history of the Italian community and the evolution of Italian teaching in the state of Victoria, Australia. I hereby present the results of my research on the history of the Italian community in Victoria, as well as the influence of Australian immigration and language policies on Italian teaching in Victorian schools, highlighting how the perception of Italian language evolved in Australian public opinion throughout history. Based on this historical framework, a critical evaluation of Italian teaching methodologies in Victoria was conducted, which informed my suggestions for future improvement of Italian teaching practices.
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SCORSOLINI, VALENTINA GIOVANNA. "TRADIZIONE CULTURALE E INSEGNAMENTO LINGUISTICO IN AUSTRALIA." Doctoral thesis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10280/40178.
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Alla luce del recente interesse verso l’insegnamento della lingua italiana all’estero, il presente elaborato esamina la storia della comunità italiana e dell’evoluzione della didattica dell’italiano nello stato del Victoria, in Australia. La tesi presenta inoltre i risultati della mia ricerca sull’influenza dei flussi migratori e delle politiche linguistiche australiane sull’insegnamento dell’italiano nelle scuole, descrivendo come la percezione della lingua italiana sia cambiata nell’immaginario australiano. Tale analisi storica mi ha permesso di formulare una valutazione critica e suggerimenti per migliorare le metodologie didattiche impiegate nei corsi di italiano nelle scuole secondarie del Victoria.In light of the growing interest towards Italian teaching abroad, the present dissertation investigates the history of the Italian community and the evolution of Italian teaching in the state of Victoria, Australia. I hereby present the results of my research on the history of the Italian community in Victoria, as well as the influence of Australian immigration and language policies on Italian teaching in Victorian schools, highlighting how the perception of Italian language evolved in Australian public opinion throughout history. Based on this historical framework, a critical evaluation of Italian teaching methodologies in Victoria was conducted, which informed my suggestions for future improvement of Italian teaching practices.
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Boscolo, Alessandra. "Percezione e movimento nello sviluppo del pensiero matematico. Convinzioni e pratiche degli insegnanti in Italia e in Australia." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2023. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/99a4ec5b3d4b3932f16512e7e0431553bbb67880463925ef78fe0036aef90358/17386369/Boscolo_2023_Percezione_e_movimento_nello_sviluppo_del.pdf.
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The research project is a mixed-method study on the implementation of active learning activities involving students' bodies and movement in mathematics teaching-learning practices. Although the role of the body and movement in mathematics learning and teaching strategies implicating active, experiential student engagement are central themes in mathematics education research, it is nevertheless complex to understand the extent to which these perspectives have penetrated school contexts, which are often rooted in transmissive teaching. The study involves Italian and Australian researchers in Mathematics education and Mathematics primary and secondary school teachers to investigate the reasons for this possible gap. Hindering and fostering factors were identified, highlighting differences due to cultural and contextual characteristics.
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Gillgren, Christina. "From aliens to ethnics: Identity and citizenship in a study of Italians and Croatians in the Western Australian southwest timber industry 1919-1969." Thesis, Gillgren, Christina (1998) From aliens to ethnics: Identity and citizenship in a study of Italians and Croatians in the Western Australian southwest timber industry 1919-1969. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1998. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/51081/.
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The basis for the construction of Australian identity and citizenship in the period 1919-1969 was a sense of 'Britishness', underpinned by the 'white Australia' policy. This study of ltalians and Croatians in the Western Australian south-west timber industry shows the extent to which 'ethnic otherness', the cultural distance from Britishness so powerfully evoked by terms such as 'alien' and 'foreign', legitimated a regime of discriminatory immigration and settlement policies, regulations and practices directed at these groups.
This thesis demonstrates the importance of ltalian and Croatian timber workers to the south-west timber industry. It explores their experiences in the industry as they moved from immediate marginalisation in the 1920s to severely restricted work opportunities during the depression. Their interwar segregation, coupled with war measures underpinned their utilisation as a mobile rural workforce within the industry in the war years. This set the scene for the extension of discriminatory immigration and settlement practices in the postwar years when the 'right types' of ltalians and Croatians, 'sturdy and capable of heavy work', were grudgingly encouraged into the timber industry at a time of acute labour shortages.
This work explores the process of the construction of identity and a sense of 'belongingness' within the host society. The 'building blocks' to identity were negotiated primarily through the experiences of these immigrants within the timber industry, often the point of entry into the workforce in Western Australia, in the first years of settlement. Naturalisation, when this option was exercised, was usually a means to overcome economic disadvantage or to bridge cultural distance. This work poses a challenge to the historiography of citizenship, which focuses primarily on substantive rights, to reevaluate citizenship mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion and their impact on identity construction.
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Paolino, Annamaria. "An interdisciplinary intervention : the potential of the Orff-Schulwerk approach as a pedagogical tool for the effective teaching of Italian to upper primary students in Western Australia." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2012. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/557.
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Since the second half of the twentieth century, Italian has been the second language spoken in Western Australia. In the primary school sector, there are over two hundred Italian teachers engaged with primary students. Many Italian teachers also use music/song as a pedagogical tool. The first part of the research examines the extent that music/song is used in primary Italian classes, as well as how and why they are used. The second part of the research centres on the use of the Orff-Schulwerk approach as an integrated music approach to teaching Italian. The research examines the success of a trialled intervention with a group of upper primary Italian language teachers, as well as exploring the support that is required to support Italian as a second language specific to upper primary contexts.
The research findings conclude that the novelty of the Orff-Schulwerk approach is considered effective in the teaching and learning of Italian. However, the research also highlights a number of constraints, which need to be addressed if teachers are to provide students with a rich and engaging curriculum.
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Mazzoli, Valentina. "Le tecniche di sincronizzazione del voice-over: analisi della proposta di adattamento per il voice-over in italiano del documentario Utopia di John Pilger." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/16047/.
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This dissertation focuses on the translation mode for audiovisual products known as voice-over. This practice has always been neglected by Translation Studies, in favour of more popular translation methods such as dubbing and subtitling. However, it is often ignored that voice-over is the preferred translation mode for the non-fiction genre. Moreover, it is gaining increasing popularity due to its inexpensive and fast approach, and as such it deserves more attention. Through the translation of Utopia, a documentary on native Australians by John Pilger, this study aims at providing a work pattern for voice-over translation, and a quantitative and qualitative analysis of a defining element of this translation mode: synchronization techniques. The analysis is thus based on the classification of the four different types of voice-over synchronies proposed by Franco, Matamala, and Orero (2010): voice-over isochrony, literal synchrony, kinetic synchrony, and action synchrony.
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O’Neill, Patrick Nathaniel. "Paul Solanges : soldier, industrialist, translator : a biographical study and critical edition of his correspondence with Antonio Fogazzaro and Henry Handel Richardson." Monash University. Faculty of Arts. School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, 2007. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/53105.
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Paul Solanges was one of the most prolific (in correspondence) and enthusiastic fans of Australian author Henry Handel Richardson (HHR). What was it about him that made HHR invest so much time in his translation of her novel, and to what extent can credence be given to the self-portrait in his letters? This thesis reveals his illegitimate royal background, considers his early career as a cavalry officer in North Africa and in the Franco-Prussian War, and describes his long career as manager of the gasworks in Milan. It also portrays in detail his other life as a translator of songs, short stories and operas from Italian to French. Finally, it compares his relationship with Italian novelist Antonio Fogazzaro to his relationship with HHR. A critical edition of Solanges’s correspondence with Fogazzaro and HHR offers the reader a privileged insight into the life and character of this Franco-Italian littérateur.
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Cappello, Anthony. "Italian Australians, the church, war and fascism in Melbourne, 1919-1945." Thesis, 1999. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/15381/.
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There is no doubt that the Irish have played a
major part in Australian Catholic Church history, but I question the notion that they have been the only
contributor to the Australian Catholic Church in Australia.
Numerous Australian Catholic Church histories fail to acknowledge the Italian contribution at all. It comes as no surprise that none of the Australian Catholic Church histories(written to date) do not mention the Italian Jesuit fathers who were chaplains to the Italians in Melbourne,
Vincenzo de Francesco (1921-1934) and Ugo (Hugh) Modotti (1938-1945) and their influence in the life of the Catholic Church during 1919 to 1945. Those who do write about the Italian contribution begin their assessment after the Second World War and regard the Italians as latecomers. Yet, the evidence illustrates that there is sufficient data to demonstrate that there was an Itahan contribution before the end of the Second World War. In fact, there is considerable evidence revealed in this thesis that the Italian
contribution was not only important but also crucial in changing the nature of the Australian church from its predominately Irish beginnings.I n the years 1919-1945 there was a world war, there were fascists, communists and movements such as the Campion Society and Catholic Action, internments, major Episcopal changes, escaped POWs and
American secret agents, and associated in all of these areas was the Italian community, particularly its chaplains. This thesis argues that the Italian contribution to Australian Catholic history during the years 1919- 1945 cannot remain merely a footnote or a paragraph.
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Cappello, Anthony. "To be or not to be an Italian: BA Santamaria, culture, descent and the social exclusion of Italian-Australians." Thesis, 2009. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/30074/.
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B.A. Santamaria is perhaps Australia's best-known thinker who happens to be of an
Italian descent and culture. While much has been written about this important thinker,
very little of this writing has focused on his background and the Italian descent and
culture from which he originated.
This doctorate is an historical exploration into the person of B.A. Santamaria, with a
strong focus on his Italian descent and culture. This thesis looks at the question of Social
Exclusion that applied to Italians in general, and in particular to B.A. Santamaria.
While mentioning the Australian Labor Party split of 1954-1955, this doctorate is more
concerned with episodes pertaining to Santamaria's background: Italian migrants, the
Aeolian Community, fascism, anti-fascism, the internment of Italian migrants, the land
settlement schemes of the National Catholic Rural Movement and Santamaria's own
admission later in life that his ideas were a product of his Italian background.
When looking at the ideas and organizations in Australia started by B.A. Santamaria, this
doctorate looks closely at this connection to his Italian background. Finally the question
is asked if B.A. Santamaria was our Italian-Australian hero.
Overall, this doctorate hopes to portray a more complete picture of B.A. Santamaria by
including and emphasizing his Italian background and the problems he may have
encountered in his work because of this background. It also highlights the social
exclusion of Italians in Australia by focusing on B.A. Santamaria.
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"Body image and self-esteem a comparison of Anglo-Australian, Italian-Australian and Italian female tertiary students." Thesis (B.A.(Hons)) -- University of Adelaide, Department of Psychology, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARPS/09arpsb452.pdf.
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Cammarano, Tania. "Ideas of Italy and the Nature of Ethnicity: A History of Italian Food in Australia with Case Studies." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/127112.
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There is a widely held belief that Italian food was introduced to Australians and made popular by Italian migrants who arrived in large numbers after World War II. While this narrative is often repeated in popular media accounts, it is overly simplistic and ignores the complex interplay of factors that occur when what are perceived as new foods are introduced into existing cultures. This trope does, however, provide context for this thesis which explores the history of Italian food in Australia with the aim of deconstructing this narrative and understanding the circumstances that have led to the acceptance and even celebration of Italian food, and its relationship to the status of Italian migrants. While much has been written about the impact of Italian migrants on Australia’s food culture, this literature has been dominated by non-scholarly accounts. Scholarly research has been largely limited to exploring the subject from a single perspective, either that of the dominant culture or that of the Italian migrants. To address this gap in the literature, this thesis employs a cultural history approach and utilises a case study model to explore this history from both migrant and host culture perspectives. By using a wide and diverse range of primary sources including business records, cookbooks, advertisements, newspapers, magazines and archival documents, each case study explores a specific but inter-related aspect of the history of Italian food in Australia. The first study examines how a publicly listed Australian company with no links to Italy came to see the economic benefits of producing an “authentic Italian” food product in mid-20th century Australia (Leggo’s). Conversely, the second study demonstrates how what began as a typical Italian migrant food business in the 1930s was able to achieve mainstream success (Perfect Cheese Company). The third study explores the motives of a group of Italian migrants linked with fascism who published what is essentially Australia’s first Italian cookbook (First Australian Continental Cookery Book) in 1937. The fourth study also uses cookbooks as its primary source and examines how over a 115-year period a representative sample of them has recommended the use of pasta. This thesis argues that the success of Italian food in Australia is a result of the actions of individuals and businesses from both the majority and minority cultures. While material factors such as industrialisation and immigration are frequently invoked when explaining change in Australia’s food culture, this thesis highlights the largely overlooked role of conceptual factors, in particular ideas about Italy that have circulated in Australia since colonisation. It also explores the ways that individuals and groups were able to harness and exploit the dynamic nature of ethnicity within the context of a rapidly changing society. This research lays to rest a number of myths about how food culture changes. In doing so, this thesis makes a significant contribution to the fields of food studies, migration studies, business history and Australian history.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Humanities, 2018