Journal articles: 'Italian Australians'

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Casella, Antonietta, and Judith Kearins. "Cross-Cultural Comparison of Family Environments of Anglo-Australians, Italian-Australians, and Southern Italians." Psychological Reports 72, no. 3 (June 1993): 1051–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1993.72.3.1051.

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Differences in academic achievement have been noted in children from various ethnic backgrounds. In Australia, differences in educational attainment between Anglo-Australian and Italian students have been documented, Italian students performing more poorly. Since the influence of environmental factors on students' achievement is well supported in the literature, the present study compared the family environments of Anglo-Australians ( n = 25), Italian-Australians ( n = 29), and Southern Italians ( n = 29) via administration of the Family Environment Scale to mothers. Significant differences were found, the Anglo-Australian sample scoring higher on the Active-Recreational subscale and lower on the Organisation subscale than both Italian groups. Differences between the Anglo-Australian and Southern Italian groups showed the Anglo-Australians scoring significantly lower on the Achievement Orientation subscale and higher on the Intellectual-Cultural Orientation subscale. There were no significant differences between the Italian groups. These findings suggest preservation of Italian cultural values within Australian society, which may contribute to a restriction of learning opportunities for Italian children and possibly affect their educational achievements in later years.

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Carniel, Jessica. "Calvary or limbo? Articulating identity and citizenship in two Italian Australian autobiographical narratives of World War II internment." Queensland Review 23, no. 1 (May 31, 2016): 20–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2016.4.

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AbstractAlmost 5,000 Italians were interned in Australia during World War II, a high proportion of them Queensland residents. Internment was a pivotal experience for the Italian community, both locally and nationally, complicating Italian Australians’ sense of belonging to their adopted country. Through an examination of two migrant autobiographical narratives of internment, Osvaldo Bonutto's A Migrant's Story and Peter Dalseno's Sugar, Tears and Eyeties, this article explores the impact of internment on the experience and articulation of cultural and civic belonging to Australian society. It finds that internment was a ‘trial’ or ‘transitional’ phase for these internees’ personal and civic identities, and that the articulation of these identities and sense of belonging is historically contingent, influenced by the shift from assimilation to multiculturalism in settlement ideology, as well as Italian Australians’ changing place in Australian society throughout the twentieth century.

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Reid, Alison, Enzo Merler, Susan Peters, Nimashi Jayasinghe, Vittoria Bressan, Peter Franklin, Fraser Brims, Nicholas H. de Klerk, and Arthur W. Musk. "Migration and work in postwar Australia: mortality profile comparisons between Australian and Italian workers exposed to blue asbestos at Wittenoom." Occupational and Environmental Medicine 75, no. 1 (July 29, 2017): 29–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2017-104322.

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ObjectivesThree hundred and thirty thousand Italians arrived in Australia between 1945 and 1966, many on assisted passage schemes where the worker agreed to a 2-year unskilled employment contract. Italians were the largest of 52 migrant groups employed at the Wittenoom blue asbestos mining and milling operation. We compare mortality from asbestos-related diseases among Italian and Australian workers employed at Wittenoom.MethodsA cohort of 6500 male workers was established from employment records and followed up at state and national mortality and cancer registries. SMRs were calculated to compare mortality with the Western Australian male population. Time-varying Cox proportional hazards models compared the risk of mesothelioma between Australian and Italian workers.Results1031 Italians and 3465 Australians worked at Wittenoom between 1943 and 1966. Duration of employment was longer for the Italian workers, although the concentration of exposure was similar. The mesothelioma mortality rate per 100 000 was higher in Italians (184, 95% CI 148 to 229) than Australians (128, 95% CI 111 to 149). The risk of mesothelioma was greater than twofold (HR 2.27, 95% CI 1.43 to 3.60) in Italians at the lowest asbestos exposure category (<10 fibre years/per mL).ConclusionsA hierarchy in migration, isolation and a shortage of workers led to Italians at Wittenoom incurring higher cumulative exposure to blue asbestos and subsequently a greater rate of malignant mesothelioma than Australian workers.ImpactPoor working conditions and disparities between native and foreign-born workers has had a detrimental and differential impact on the long-term health of the workforce.

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Agnoli, Franca, Hannah Fraser, Felix Singleton Thorn, and Fiona Fidler. "Australian and Italian Psychologists’ View of Replication." Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 4, no. 3 (July 2021): 251524592110392. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/25152459211039218.

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Solutions to the crisis in confidence in the psychological literature have been proposed in many recent articles, including increased publication of replication studies, a solution that requires engagement by the psychology research community. We surveyed Australian and Italian academic research psychologists about the meaning and role of replication in psychology. When asked what they consider to be a replication study, nearly all participants (98% of Australians and 96% of Italians) selected options that correspond to a direct replication. Only 14% of Australians and 8% of Italians selected any options that included changing the experimental method. Majorities of psychologists from both countries agreed that replications are very important, that more replications should be done, that more resources should be allocated to them, and that they should be published more often. Majorities of psychologists from both countries reported that they or their students sometimes or often replicate studies, yet they also reported having no replication studies published in the prior 5 years. When asked to estimate the percentage of published studies in psychology that are replications, both Australians (with a median estimate of 13%) and Italians (with a median estimate of 20%) substantially overestimated the actual rate. When asked what constitute the main obstacles to replications, difficulty publishing replications was the most frequently cited obstacle, coupled with the high value given to innovative or novel research and the low value given to replication studies.

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Benatti, Ruben, and Angela Tiziana Tarantini. "Dialects Among Young Italian-Australians: A Shift in Attitude and Perception." Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 52, no. 4 (December 20, 2017): 467–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/stap-2017-0021.

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Abstract The aim of this article is to analyse the relationship that second- and third-generation Italian migrants in Australia have with the Italian dialect of their family. We report on the survey we recently carried out among young Italian-Australians, mainly learners of Italian as a second language. First, we analyse the motivation behind learning Italian as a heritage language. We then move on to describe their self-evaluation of their competence in the dialect of their family, and their perception thereof. Surprisingly, our survey reveals that not only are Italian dialects still understood by most second- and third-generation Italians (contrary to what people may think), but Italian dialects are also perceived by young Italian-Australians as an important part of their identity. For them, dialect is the language of the family, particularly in relation to the older members. It fulfills an instrumental function, as it enables communication with some family members who master neither English nor Italian, but above all, it is functional to the construction of their self and their social identity.

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Fratti, Sara, Stephen C. Bowden, and Olimpia Pino. "Diagnostic memory assessment in Italian-born Australians." International Psychogeriatrics 23, no. 7 (March 22, 2011): 1133–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1041610211000305.

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ABSTRACTBackground:In many English-speaking countries neuropsychological assessment of non-English speakers is often performed in English or through an interpreter. Relying on interpreters often involves unstandardized and ad hoc translations of tests which may limit valid assessment.Methods:In a sample of 75 Italian-born elderly Australians from the general community (48 women and 27 men, aged 56–90 years) we administered standardized and normed psychological tests in both English (WMS-III, WAIS-III, BNT, Schonell Graded Word Reading Test) and Italian (Milan Overall Dementia Assessment, MODA). We examined the hypothesis that long-term retrieval ability assessed in English is primarily influenced by cognitive abilities assessed in Italian and by English language competence.Results:Regression analysis showed that the strongest predictor of long-term retrieval in English was long-term retrieval in Italian (R2= 0.229, F(72) = 29.12, p<0.01). After inclusion of an estimate of general cognitive ability in Italian, English language competence failed to add significantly to variance explained in memory tested in English (p > 0.05).Conclusions:Results of the present study support the view that long-term retrieval memory is not significantly affected by second language proficiency after control of cognitive ability assessed in Italian. As a consequence, if an Italian-born elder Australian with English as a second language scores poorly on a diagnostic memory test, this result may be due to cognitive impairment rather than language issues. If, instead, we attribute poor performance to language competence, an increased risk of false negative diagnosis may arise.

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Rubino, Antonia, and Camilla Bettoni. "The use of English among Italo-Australians in Sydney." Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 14, no. 1 (January 1, 1991): 59–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aral.14.1.04rub.

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Abstract This article presents the first results of a research project which investigates patterns of language use in the Italo-Australian community in Sydney. All three languages spoken by the majority of Italo-Australians are taken into account: Italian, dialect and English. This article focusses on English. Use of English by 202 subjects (of different generations, Italian regions, age groups and socioeconomic backgrounds) is explored in 46 situations in four domains (family, friendship, work/school and transactions), taking into account congruent and incongruent situations with regard to three main factors: interlocutor, topic of conversation and place where it takes place. The data show a widespread shift to English which starts among younger subjects of the first generation and increases dramatically among the second generation. Furthermore, use of English by Italo-Australians depends more on personal characteristics of speakers and addressees (such as age and generation) than on topic or place of conversation.

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Caruso, Marinella. "Attrition in the verb system of Italian in Australia." Australian Review of Applied Linguistics. Series S 18 (January 1, 2004): 9–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aralss.18.02car.

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This article reports on an investigation into the loss of morphology expressing temporality in the Italian of second generation Italo-Australians. The purpose of the study is to verify whether the loss of Italian tense and aspect morphology proceeds from marked to unmarked, where markedness is defined on the basis of formal and semantic criteria. Italian language samples are elicited through interviews with first and second generation Italo-Australians, and speakers are placed on an attritional continuum along which the verb forms are compared. The explanations for the patterns of loss identified in the data involve a combination of factors, such as markedness principles, universal or general characteristics of spoken language and interlinguistic influence of dialect.

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Papalia, Gerardo. "The Italian “Fifth Column” in Australia: Fascist Propaganda, Italian‐Australians and Internment." Australian Journal of Politics & History 66, no. 2 (June 2020): 214–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajph.12680.

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Caria, Marzia. "«Non so scrivere inglese, a momenti neppure italiano… datemi una “giobba” qualsiasi»: gli emigrati italiani nel teatro di Nino Randazzo." Italianistica Debreceniensis 26 (December 1, 2020): 56–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.34102/itde/2020/9381.

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L'articolo prende in esame la rappresentazione culturale, sociale e linguistica degli italiani emigrati in Australia nella scrittura per il teatro di Nino Randazzo, drammaturgo di origine eoliana, emigrato a Melbourne nel 1952, considerato uno degli autori più importanti e prolifici nel contesto della cosiddetta “letteratura dell'emigrazione”, e più in particolare della letteratura italo-australiana in lingua italiana. Di particolare interesse è il tema dei pregiudizi culturali e sociali degli anglo-australiani nei confronti delle persone di origine italiana, etichettati come ignoranti, impossibili da acculturare e disciplinare, in gran parte legati alle organizzazioni criminali, che parlano per lo più una varietà mista di italiano e inglese. Così, in particolare, nella commedia Il Sindaco d'Australia (1981), in cui l'immagine stereotipata (ma esilarante) dell'emigrante del sud Italia, impulsiva e ambiziosa, caratterizzata a livello linguistico dall'uso di termini italo-australiani; e nella commedia Victoria Market (1982), concepita da Randazzo come protesta contro la tendenza degli anglo-australiani a costruire stereotipi nei confronti degli italo-australiani, in questo caso quello del'italiano mafioso. Il teatro di Randazzo, tuttavia, riesce a distinguersi dalle opere della maggior parte dei drammaturghi italo-australiani di prima generazione per il suo tentativo di demistificare in modo divertente tali pregiudizi e luoghi comuni. È nella scelta di un tono popolare della commedia, ottenuta anche attraverso la sapiente mescolanza di forme italiane più tradizionali con termini italo-australiani tipici degli anni in cui sono ambientati gli eventi narrati, che risiedono gli aspetti specifici di questo autore.

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Westbrook, Mary T., Varoe Legge, and Mark Pennay. "Ethnic Differences in Expectations for Women with Physical Disabilities." Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling 26, no. 4 (December 1, 1995): 26–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0047-2220.26.4.26.

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A questionnaire survey of 665 members of the Chinese, Italian, German, Greek, Arabic aild Anglo Australian communities investigated community expectations for women with physical disabilities. Germans' attitudes resembled those of the Anglo mainstream culture but other communities differed significantly in the following ways: women with disabilities were described as less likely to work, marry, have children, be socially active or live indepeildently. Most communities expected them to experience greater shame, be more withdrawn, less cheerful and less optimistic than did Anglo Australians. There was less expectation that such women would discuss their disabilities, act autonomously or strive for indepeildence.

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Marjoribanks, Kevin. "Family environment and cognitive correlates of young adults' social status attainment: ethnic group differences." Journal of Biosocial Science 23, no. 4 (October 1991): 491–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021932000019581.

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SummaryA longitudinal sample of 21-year-old Australians from Anglo-Australian, Greek and Southern Italian families was used to examine relationships of children's cognitive performance, family learning environments, adolescents' perceptions of family learning contexts, and measures of young adults' social status attainment. Generally, the findings using a regression approach indicated that there were ethnic group differences in the relations between parents' academic socialisation, children's cognitive performance, and measures of young adults' social status attainment. The results also showed that in each ethnic group, adolescents' perceptions of parents' support for learning had strong associations with young adults' status attainment.

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Walker, Talia. "Investigating the performance of emailed apologies by Australian learners of Italian." EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages 9, no. 1 (April 10, 2022): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.21283/2376905x.15.1.235.

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EN This paper explores the strategies chosen by Australian learners of Italian when performing emailed apologies in Italian. Through a modified discourse completion task, 42 participants produced a total of 317 emails. This paper presents an adapted typology of these emailed apologies in Italian which, while drawing on previous literature, has been tailored to be more specific to and therefore more effective in the analysis of the data collected in this project. It was found that the apology act as performed by Australian learners of Italian consists of two principal components, the apology and the repair, the latter of which is optional but is usually included. In addition, supportive strategies can be included prior to or following either of these components to strengthen the illocutionary force of the apology act. The analysis also evidenced that while a broad speech act structure can be identified, the apology act is a complex phenomenon which can be performed with great variation. Key words: APOLOGIES, APOLOGY STRATEGIES, APOLOGY TYPOLOGY, AUSTRALIAN LEARNERS OF ITALIAN, EMAILED APOLOGIES ES Este estudio examina las estrategias elegidas por discentes australianos de italiano en las disculpas enviadas por e-mail. A través de un Discourse Completion Task modificado (actividad de finalización del discurso), 42 participantes produjeron un total de 317 e-mails. Este artículo presenta una tipología adaptada de disculpas en italiano enviadas por e-mail que, aunque tomada de la literatura precedente, se ha adecuado para que fuera más pertinente al proyecto. Se observa que el acto de disculpa del alumnado australiano de italiano se constituye de dos elementos principales: la disculpa y la reparación; este último es facultativo, pero se suele incluir. Además, se pueden utilizar estrategias de soporte antes o después de uno de los dos componentes para consolidar la fuerza ilocutiva del acto de disculpa. El análisis también ha demostrado que, por un lado, es posible identificar una estructura amplia del acto lingüístico, y por otro, el acto de disculpa es un fenómeno complejo cuya realización es altamente variable. Palabras claves: DISCULPAS, ESTRATEGIAS PARA DISCULPARSE, TIPOLOGÍA DE DISCULPAS, DISCENTES AUSTRALIANOS DE ITALIANO, DISCULPAS POR E-MAIL IT Questo studio esamina le strategie usate da apprendenti australiani di italiano per la formulazione di scuse in italiano inviate via e-mail. Attraverso un Discourse Completion Task modificato (attività di completamento del discorso), 42 partecipanti hanno prodotto un totale di 317 email. Questo articolo presenta una tipologia adattata di scuse in italiano inviate via e-mail che, pur attingendo dalla letteratura precedente, è stata adeguata per essere più attinente al presente progetto. Emerge che l’atto di scusarsi prodotto dagli studenti australiani di italiano è costituito da due elementi principali: la scusa e la riparazione; nonostante quest’ultimo sia facoltativo, viene di solito incluso. Inoltre, strategie di supporto possono essere impiegate prima o dopo una delle due componenti per consolidare la forza illocutoria dell’atto di scuse. L’analisi ha anche dimostrato che, se da un lato, è possibile identificare un’ampia struttura dell’atto linguistico, dall’altro, l’atto di scusarsi è un fenomeno complesso la cui realizzazione è altamente variabile. Parole chiave: SCUSE, STRATEGIE PER SCUSARSI, TIPOLOGIA DI SCUSE, APPRENDENTI AUSTRALIANI DI ITALIANO, SCUSE VIA EMAIL

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Marjoribanks, Kevin. "Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Family Environments of Anglo-, Greek-, and Italian-Australians." Psychological Reports 74, no. 1 (February 1994): 49–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1994.74.1.49.

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Discriminant analysis was used to examine ethnic-group differences in the family environments of 615 11-yr.-old Australian children. The results indicated differences in the learning environments of children from Anglo-, Greek-, and Italian-Australian families.

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Abbasi-Shavazi, Mohammad Jalal, and Peter McDonald. "Fertility and Multiculturalism: Immigrant Fertility in Australia, 1977–1991." International Migration Review 34, no. 1 (March 2000): 215–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019791830003400109.

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This article examines the fertility patterns of immigrant groups in Australia during the period, 1977–1991. In this period, the previous policies of assimilation or integration of immigrants into mainstream culture were set aside in favor of a policy of multiculturalism, one of the dimensions of which was support for maintenance of culture. The general finding of research relating to the period prior to multiculturalism was that immigrants adapted to Australian fertility patterns. This study examines whether immigrants and their children in the era of multiculturalism have been more likely to maintain the fertility patterns of their country of origin than was the case in the past. The study concludes that while adaptation to Australian patterns remains the dominant feature of the fertility patterns of immigrants, Italian and Greek Australians show evidence of cultural maintenance.

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Palmieri, Cristiana. "Belonging, idealized self and wellbeing." Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 40, no. 2 (December 1, 2017): 176–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aral.40.2.06pal.

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Abstract This paper presents the findings from a study that examines the motivations of adult Australians of non-Italian origin to learn Italian in continuing education contexts in Sydney. The study embraces a view of motivation as a multifaceted phenomenon that is produced in a social environment through the interaction between the second language learners and the context in which they operate. The findings reveal that in the Australian multicultural context, the motivation to learn Italian is influenced by a process of negotiation of identity, triggered by both the presence of a well-established Italian migrant community, and the exposure to Italian cultural elements. Thus, the ‘investment’ of students in learning Italian may be generated by the desire to acquire some forms of symbolic capital rather than material resources, as in the case of other more ‘global’ languages (e.g., English). The willingness to invest in the acquisition of elements of symbolic capital indicates learners’ desire to achieve goals related to self-growth and identity development, which in turn generates greater gains in wellbeing. Interviews with the participants also reveal that intrinsic factors, such as affiliation (with the target language speaking community, as well as with the community of learners in Sydney), and self-realization (correspondence with the ideal self-image of a competent language speaker), are key motivators for this group of students. The desire to belong to a community, of either speakers of Italian or like-minded people involved in the same learning trajectory, highlights the importance of cultivating meaningful relationships to increase individuals’ wellbeing and to nurture a sense of attachment and affiliation.

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Baldassar, Loretta. "Marias and marriage: ethnicity, gender and sexuality among Italo-Australian youth in Perth1." Journal of Sociology 35, no. 1 (March 1999): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/144078339903500101.

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Using an ethnographic account of weddings and network activities among Italo-Australian youth in Perth, and, in particular, a symbolic analysis of garters and bouquets, this paper explores the intersections of ethnicity, gender and sexuality, and reviews social scientific theories of ethnic identity and cultural transmission. By investigating the double standard-where men are free to be sexually active and women are not-it confronts some of the stereotypes about 'second generation Australians' and 'culture clash', female oppression and the control of sexuality. Of particular concern is the way that some Italo-Australian women perceive sexual freedom in Australian society. The paper argues that the moral community represented by the youth network and, in particular, the challenges posed by it to the traditional model of female honour, allow for significant generational changes in the construction of ethnic identity. By analysing how identities are constructed and articulated across difference, and how 'this kind of relativising' is 'embodied in the habitus [cf. Bourdieu 1977] of the second generation' (Bottomley 1992a: 132), the paper explodes homogeneous conceptions of what is Italian, and ltalo-Australian culture.

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J. MacKinnon, Valerie. "Language Difficulties and Health Consequences for Older Italian-Australians in Ascot Vale." Australian Journal of Primary Health 4, no. 4 (1998): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py98059.

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A qualitative needs analysis, undertaken with 33 older Italian-Australians living in Ascot Vale, identified a number of language related difficulties that had actual or potential health consequences. Indeed health services utilisation was a problem for most participants and although they all attended a general practitioner, there was usually little or no contact with agencies that provide home care, support or health enhancing information, either because of a lack of awareness on the part of participants or because they believed the services were linguistically (or culturally) inappropriate. Language support, at best, was provided by family members because the health interpreter service was rarely used. The findings suggest a lack of structural and practitioner commitment to addressing the language needs of LOTE immigrants, especially: the current financial and administrative disincentives to community based practitioners using the health interpreter services; an apparent lack of commitment on the part of health workers to use the health interpreter services; and a failure to develop mechanisms for providing them with health related information. It appears that the equity debates of the 1970s that focused on language barriers should be revisited, because the findings of this study suggest language competence is a necessary prerequisite to these older participants effectively accessing health related information or services, or participating, either individually or collectively, in the planning or implementation of their health care.

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Marjoribanks, Kevin. "Cross-Cultural Comparisons of Family Environments and Achievement Motivation of Anglo-, Greek-, and Italian-Australians." Psychological Reports 76, no. 1 (February 1995): 313–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1995.76.1.313.

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Discriminant analysis was used to examine cultural group differences in the family environments and achievement motivation of 700 11-yr.-old children. Analysis indicated sex- and ethnic-group differences in the family environments and extrinsic achievement motivation of children from Anglo-, Greek-, and Italian-Australian families.

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Taylor, A. W., E. Dal Grande, P. Fateh-Moghadam, A. Montgomerie, L. Battisti, H. Barrie, C. Kourbelis, and S. Campostrini. "Comparison of Health and Risk Factors of Older, Working-age Australians, Italians and Italian-born Migrants to Australia, with Data from an Italian (PASSI), and an Australian (SAMSS) Risk Factor Surveillance System." Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 20, no. 5 (September 26, 2017): 1190–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10903-017-0654-9.

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Low, Lee-Fay, Kaarin Jane Anstey, Steven Malcolm Lackersteen, Michael Camit, Fleur Harrison, Brian Draper, and Henry Brodaty. "Recognition, Attitudes and Causal Beliefs regarding Dementia in Italian, Greek and Chinese Australians." Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 30, no. 6 (2010): 499–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000321667.

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Low, Lee-Fay, Kaarin J. Anstey, Steven M. P. Lackersteen, and Michael Camit. "Help-seeking and service use for dementia in Italian, Greek and Chinese Australians." Aging & Mental Health 15, no. 3 (April 1, 2011): 397–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2010.536134.

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James, Roberta. "The Reliable Beauty ofAroma: Staples of Food and Cultural Production among Italian-Australians." Australian Journal of Anthropology 15, no. 1 (April 2004): 23–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1835-9310.2004.tb00363.x.

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Sala, Emanuela, and Loretta Baldassar. "Leaving Family to Return to Family: Roots Migration Among Second-Generation Italian-Australians." Ethos 45, no. 3 (September 2017): 386–408. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/etho.12173.

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Ashton, Paul. "Music and Love: Music in the Lives of Italian Australians in Griffith, New South Wales." Musicology Australia 30, no. 1 (January 2008): 90–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08145857.2008.10416737.

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Mariño, Rodrigo, Victor Minichiello, Clive Wright, and Margot Schofield. "Oral health beliefs and practices among Greek and Italian older Australians: A focus group approach." Australasian Journal on Ageing 21, no. 4 (December 2002): 193–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-6612.2002.tb00446.x.

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Benedetti, Renée, Lynne Cohen, and Myra Taylor. "“There's really no other option”: Italian Australians’ Experiences of Caring for a Family Member With Dementia." Journal of Women & Aging 25, no. 2 (April 2013): 138–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2013.760330.

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Marino, Simone. "The “Double Absence” of the Immigrant and Its Legacy across Generations among Australians of Italian Origin." Journal of Anthropological Research 75, no. 1 (March 2019): 21–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/701271.

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Runci, Susannah J., Barbara J. Eppingstall, and Daniel W. O'Connor. "A comparison of verbal communication and psychiatric medication use by Greek and Italian residents with dementia in Australian ethno-specific and mainstream aged care facilities." International Psychogeriatrics 24, no. 5 (December 5, 2011): 733–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1041610211002134.

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ABSTRACTBackground: Older migrants with dementia and limited English language proficiency in residential care may have unmet needs for social interaction. This project compared verbal communication and prescribed psychiatric medication of Greek and Italian residents with dementia in ethno-specific and mainstream residential care.Methods: Participants were 82 older Australians of Greek or Italian background who had been diagnosed with dementia and were residing in mainstream or ethno-specific care. Residents were observed and their language use was recorded. An assessment of cognitive impairment was conducted. A structured interview was held with a family member and a staff member.Results: The observed rate of resident-to-resident communication was higher in the ethno-specific facilities. Staff-to-resident interaction rate did not differ between the facility types. Residents in ethno-specific care were prescribed antipsychotics at a significantly lower rate.Conclusions: Residents with dementia and limited English language proficiency in mainstream care would benefit from greater opportunities to interact with peers in their own language. Prescribed medication should be monitored to ensure that these residents are not misinterpreted as “disruptive,” or are not actually more agitated due to difficulty in communicating their needs.

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Marchesi, Francesco. "Italian Thought. Ámbito filosófico y problemática historiográfica." Tiempo devorado 4, no. 3 (February 17, 2018): 509–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/tdevorado.126.

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La recepción en los departamentos de Literatura comparada y Humanidades de las universidades estadounidenses, y en gran medida también en las universidades latinomaericanas, inglesas y australianas, del pensamiento de algunos filósofos italianos contemporáneos ha dado lugar a la etiqueta de Italian Theory o Italian Thought. Este fenómeno es particularmente evidente con respecto a autores como Giorgio Agamben, Toni Negri y Roberto Esposito, gracias a los cuales se está redescubriendo la tradición obrerista, desde Tronti hasta Cacciari. También en Italia, especialmente gracias al trabajo de Esposito y su grupo, se está debatiendo la existencia y la naturaleza de un campo de posiciones, en lugar de una corriente en sentido estricto, que gira en torno a lo que en Estados Unidos se define como la “biopolítica italiana”, una reflexión sobre la relación entre las formas de poder y la vida biológica como un carácter sobresaliente de nuestra ontología de la actualidad. Sobre esta base no solo se comparan diferentes tesis sobre la triangulación entre la vida, la política y la historia, sino también diferentes hipótesis sobre su génesis, para algunos relacionada a la historia del obrerismo italiano de los años 60, para otros a una larga duración, que se remonta a la primera génesis de un “pensamiento italiano” en autores como Maquiavelo, Bruno y Vico. Aquí pretendemos explorar los problemas teóricos e históricos planteados por la Italian Theory, en primer lugar, dando una visión general del debate contemporáneo, para centrarnos luego en las cuestiones teóricas abiertas y las consecuencias historiográficas que se derivan de ella.

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Muslim, Ahmad Bukhori, and Jillian R. Brown. "NAVIGATING BETWEEN ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY: HERITAGE LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AMONG YOUNG AUSTRALIANS OF INDONESIAN ORIGIN." Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics 6, no. 1 (July 29, 2016): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.17509/ijal.v6i1.2747.

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<p>For ethnic minority groups, speaking a heritage language signifies belonging to their country of origin and enriches the dominant culture. The acculturation of major ethnic groups in Australia – Greek, Italian, Chinese, Indian and Vietnamese – has been frequently studied, but a minor one like Indonesian has not. Through semi-structured interviews at various places and observations at cultural events, the study explores the contextual use, meaning and perceived benefits of Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) among Indonesian families and how this practice influences the young participants’ (18-26 years old) identification with Indonesia, the origin country of their parents, and Australia, their current culture of settlement. The findings suggest that Bahasa Indonesia serves as a marker of ethnic and religious identity glued in family socialization. Parents believe that not only does the language signify their Indonesian ethnic identity, but also provides a means for socializing family values, and is beneficial for educational purposes and future career opportunities. However, parents face a dilemma whether to focus on ethnic or religious identity in socializing the use of Bahasa Indonesia. Interestingly, most young participants demonstrate a more global worldview by embracing both Indonesian and Australian values. How religious identity relates to more global worldview should be addressed more comprehensively in future studies.</p>

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Sala, Emanuela, and Loretta Baldassar. "Killing pigs and talking to nonna: “wog” versus “cosmopolitan” Italianitá among second-generation Italian-Australians and the role of family." Ethnic and Racial Studies 42, no. 10 (August 6, 2018): 1651–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2018.1506141.

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Sala, Emanuela, and Loretta Baldassar. "“I Don’t Do Much in the Community as an Italian, but in My Family I Do”: A Critique of Symbolic Ethnicity through a Longitudinal Study of Second-Generation Italian Australians." Journal of Anthropological Research 73, no. 4 (December 2017): 557–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/694683.

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Marino, Simone. "Ethnic identity and race: the “double absence” and its legacy across generations among Australians of Southern Italian origin. Operationalizing institutional positionality." Ethnic and Racial Studies 42, no. 5 (April 11, 2018): 707–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2018.1451649.

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Baker, Carolyn, and Greer Cavallaro Johnson. "Stories of Courtship and Marriage: Orientations in Openings." Narrative Inquiry 10, no. 2 (December 31, 2000): 377–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.10.2.05bak.

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This paper presents initial analyses of the opening sequences of a number of courtship and marriage stories told by elderly Italian-Australians. Using a conversation-analytic perspective, the paper contributes to the study of how storytelling is a co-construction of teller and audience. The focus is on how the storyteller(s) and the interviewer, referring to a list of topics that might be covered in the story, negotiate how the story should be told. These instances of conversational storytelling differ from those in naturally occurring settings, since the storytelling is being recorded; further, they are distinctive because the storytellers know that the audio-recordings will be later transformed into chapters in a book. Therefore, there is a distinctive “for the record”orientation by both storyteller and interviewer, as might occur with oral history research. This paper explicates what might be involved in getting stories started under such circumstances. Some of the theoretical issues that arise from the analysis include the status, for storytellers, of the assumption that there is a correct or true story that represents what once happened. The orientation taken to analysis of the storytelling, however, is concerned with the “act of telling”(cf. Bamberg, 1997). This paper thus contributes to a pragmatic approach to narrative and narrative analysis.

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Phau, Ian, Vanessa Quintal, Chris Marchegiani, and Sean Lee. "Looking beyond pasta and pizzas: examining personal and historical nostalgia as travel motives." International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research 10, no. 3 (August 1, 2016): 296–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijcthr-07-2015-0073.

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Purpose This paper aims to examine how nostalgia influences travel attitudes and intentions of tourist destination among travellers with Italian heritage. Perceived travel risks as a moderating role between the relationships between personal and historical nostalgia and travel attitudes are also examined. Design/methodology/approach A self-administered mail survey was used, targeting Australians of Italian heritage, to investigate the influence of nostalgia on attitudes and intentions to visit Italy as a tourist destination. A total of 218 usable responses were used for analysis. Exploratory factor analysis was utilised to assess the dimensionality of the constructs, and regression analysis was used to test the hypothesised relationships in the research model. Findings On analysis of the data collected through a mail survey, results showed that only personal nostalgia was found to exert a positive influence upon travel attitudes which in turn was positively related to travel intention toward Italy. Perceived travel risk factors did not moderate the relationship between personal nostalgia and travel attitudes. However, a negative relationship was found between perceived travel risk and travel intentions towards Italy. Practical implications The findings provide further validity to the personal and historical nostalgia scales as a means of understanding motivations to visit a tourist destination. Such findings are significant in adding destination managers and policymakers in developing marketing executions and policies that seek to capitalise on the nostalgic sentiments of the target segments. This study further contributes to the literature on perceived travel risks by highlighting its moderating effect on nostalgic motivations and travel attitudes. Originality/value This study aimed to enrich the theoretical base of the tourism discipline by reviewing the significance of personal and historical nostalgia as travel motives and their impact upon a tourist’s travel attitudes and intentions. It also examines the moderating role of perceived travel risks in an empirical model. Further, the current study is the first of its kind to empirically examine personal and historical nostalgia within a leisure travel context.

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Baldassar, Loretta. "Migration Monuments in Italy and Australia: Contesting Histories and Transforming Identities." Modern Italy 11, no. 1 (February 2006): 43–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532940500492241.

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Rather than focusing on how Italians share the neighbourhood with other groups, this paper examines some of the intra-group processes (i.e. relations between Italians themselves) that produced various monuments to Italian migration in Australia, Brazil and Italy. Through their distinct styles and formulations, the monuments reflect diverse and often competing elaborations of the migrant experience by different generations at local, national and transnational levels. The recent increase in the construction of such monuments in Australia is linked to the gradual disappearance of ‘visibly’ Italian neighbourhoods. These commemorations effectively transform Italian migrants into Australian pioneers and, thus, resolve moral and cultural ambiguities about belonging and identity by de-emphasizing difference (ethnic diversity) and concealing intergenerational tensions about appropriate ways of expressing Italianness. Similarly, the appearance of monuments in Italy is linked to an emergent ‘diasporic’ consciousness fuelled by Italian emigrants’ growing ability to travel to Italy, but also to the attempt to obscure potentially destabilizing dual identities by emphasizing (one, Italian) ‘homeland’.

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Kavadias, Korey, Riccardo Amorati, and John Hajek. "UNDERSTANDING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE STUDY AT PRIMARY SCHOOL AND REASONS FOR DISCONTINUATION INTO SECONDARY STUDY IN AUSTRALIA." Italiano LinguaDue 14, no. 1 (July 26, 2022): 291–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.54103/2037-3597/18179.

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This study explores Australian university students’ experiences of Italian language study in primary school. It aims to understand the reasons why they may not continue with Italian in the transition to secondary education. The findings showed that while students enjoyed Italian language education overall at primary level, they were critical [1]about many aspects associated with their learning experience, particularly their teachers, and their own learning progress, which was hindered by limited contact hours and repetitive and insufficient content covered. However, these factors were not found to be salient in accounting for discontinuation into secondary school, which was instead caused mainly by the lack of provision of Italian at that level and, for some students, also by perceptions of scarce preparedness for secondary study and limited practical applicability of Italian. This study suggests that efforts should be made to ensure coordinated provision of Italian language study between primary and secondary, and that curricula should be reframed to include more contact hours and to reduce unnecessary repetition in content. Capire le esperienze di studenti universitari nello studio della lingua italiana alla scuola primaria e le ragioni della sua interruzione nella scuola secondaria in Australia Questo studio esplora le esperienze di studenti universitari australiani relative allo studio della lingua italiana nella scuola primaria. L’obiettivo è di comprendere i fattori che portano all’abbandono dell’italiano nel passaggio alla scuola secondaria. I risultati hanno mostrato che nonostante gli studenti abbiano apprezzato lo studio della lingua nella scuola primaria, sono stati critici su molti aspetti legati alla loro esperienza, in particolare i loro insegnanti, e i loro progressi di apprendimento, che sono stati ostacolati da ore di insegnamento limitate e da contenuti didattici ripetitivi e insufficienti. Tuttavia, questi fattori non sono risultati centrali per spiegare l’abbandono dell’italiano nella scuola secondaria, che è stato invece causato principalmente dalla mancanza di offerta della lingua a quel livello e, per alcuni studenti, anche dalla percezione di una scarsa preparazione allo studio secondario nonché di una limitata spendibilità dell’italiano. Questo studio suggerisce che è necessario assicurare un’offerta coordinata di studio della lingua italiana tra la scuola primaria e secondaria, e che i curricula scolastici dovrebbero essere modificati in modo da includere più ore di insegnamento della lingua e ridurre inutili ripetizioni contenutistiche.

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Hajek, John, Renata Aliani, and Yvette Slaughter. "From the Periphery to Center Stage: The Mainstreaming of Italian in the Australian Education System (1960s to 1990s)." History of Education Quarterly 62, no. 4 (November 2022): 475–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/heq.2022.30.

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AbstractThis article examines the complex drivers of change in language education that have resulted in Australia having the highest number of students learning Italian in the world. An analysis of academic and non-academic literature, policy documents, and quantitative data helps trace the trajectory of the Italian language in the Australian education system, from the 1960s to the 1990s, illustrating the interaction of different variables that facilitated the shift in Italian's status from a largely immigrant language to one of the most widely studied languages in Australia. This research documents the factors behind the successful mainstreaming of Italian into schools, which, in addition to the active support it received from the Italian community and the Italian government, also included, notably, the ability of different Australian governments to address societal transformation and to respond to the emerging practical challenges in scaling up new language education initiatives in a detailed and comprehensive manner.

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Faggion, Laura, and Raffaello Furlan. "CULTURAL MEANINGS EMBEDDED IN THE FAÇADE OF ITALIAN MIGRANTS’ HOUSES IN BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA." International Journal of Architectural Research: ArchNet-IJAR 11, no. 1 (March 30, 2017): 119. http://dx.doi.org/10.26687/archnet-ijar.v11i1.1225.

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In the Post-WWII period, while industrial production in Italy had diminished and millions of people were unemployed, Australia was facing the opposite problem of shortage of labour, due to a rapid agricultural and industrial development. By virtue of the immigration policy adopted by the Australian government in the 1950s, assistance with the cost of migration to Australia was provided to those Italians willing to migrate to Australia. Italian migrants, as well as diverse migrant groups, brought with them cultural practices and a way of life, which are nowadays part of the multicultural Australian built environment and society. This research study focuses on the domestic dwellings built in the late 1980s and early 1990s in Brisbane by the Italian migrants. Namely, it is argued that the façade of migrants’ houses is embedded by cultural meanings. The study is of qualitative nature and as primary sources of data uses (1) semi-structured interviews, (2) photo-elicitation interviews and (3) focus group discussion, which were conducted both in Australia with twenty first-generation Italian migrants, and in Italy with ten informants, indigenous to the Veneto region, where they built their homes. Visual data about the houses was collected with (4) photographs and drawings. The findings reveal that Italian houses are concurrently a physical structure and a set of meanings based on culture: these two components are tied together rather than being separate and distinct. Namely, the Veneto migrants chose two models for the construction of their houses in Brisbane: (1) the rural houses built in the 1970s and 1980s by their ancestors (2) and the villas designed by Andrea Palladio in the 15th century in the Veneto region for noble families.

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Lee, Christopher, and Claire Kennedy. "Race, technological modernity, and the Italo-Australian condition: Francesco De Pinedo's 1925 flight from Europe to Australia." Modern Italy 25, no. 3 (April 22, 2020): 243–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mit.2020.17.

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Writing about fascism and aviation has stressed the role technology played in Mussolini's ambitions to cultivate fascist ideals in Italy and amongst the Italian diaspora. In this article we examine Francesco De Pinedo's account of the Australian section of his record-breaking 1925 flight from Rome to Tokyo. Our analysis of De Pinedo's reception as a modern Italian in a British Australia, and his response to that reception, suggests that this Italian aviator was relatively unconcerned with promoting Fascist greatness in Australia. De Pinedo was interested in Australian claims to the forms of modernity he had witnessed in the United States and which the Fascists were attempting to incorporate into a new vision of Italian destiny. Flight provided him with a geographical imagination which understood modernity as an international exchange of progressive peoples. His Australian reception revealed a nation anxious about preserving its British identity in a globalising world conducive to a more cosmopolitan model of modernity.

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Bennetts, Stephen. "‘Undesirable Italians’: prolegomena for a history of the Calabrian ’Ndrangheta in Australia." Modern Italy 21, no. 1 (February 2016): 83–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mit.2015.5.

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Although Italian mafia scholars have recently been turning their attention to the Calabrian mafia (known as the ’Ndrangheta) diaspora in Australia, their efforts have been limited by conducting research remotely from Italy without the benefit of local knowledge. Australian journalists and crime writers have long played an important role in documenting ’Ndrangheta activities, but have in turn been limited by a lack of expertise in Italian language and culture, and knowledge of the Italian scholarly literature. As previously in the US, Australian scholarly discussion of the phenomenon has been inhibited, especially since the 1970s, by a ‘liberal progressive’ ‘negationist’ discourse, which has led to a virtual silence within the local scholarly literature. This paper seeks to break this silence by bringing the Italian scholarly and Australian journalistic and archival sources into dialogue, and summarising the clear evidence for the presence in Australia since the early 1920s of criminal actors associated with a well-organised criminal secret society structured along lines familiar from the literature on the ’Ndrangheta.

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Gatt-Rutter, John. "Translating Lives: Italian-Australian Biography and Translation." Life Writing 4, no. 1 (April 2007): 41–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14484520701211008.

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Edwards, Natalie. "The Bilingual Cockatoo: Writing Italian Australian Lives." Life Writing 12, no. 2 (March 17, 2015): 233–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2015.1022927.

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Battiston, Simone. "The Bilingual Cockatoo: Writing Italian Australian Lives." Journal of Australian Studies 39, no. 2 (April 3, 2015): 284–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2015.1018099.

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Pereira-Salgado, Amanda, Patrick Mader, and Leanne M. Boyd. "Advance care planning, culture and religion: an environmental scan of Australian-based online resources." Australian Health Review 42, no. 2 (2018): 152. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah16182.

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Objectives Culture and religion are important in advance care planning (ACP), yet it is not well understood how this is represented in ACP online resources. The aim of the present study was to identify the availability of Australian-based ACP websites and online informational booklets containing cultural and religious information. Methods An environmental scanning framework was used with a Google search conducted from 30 June 2015 to 5 July 2015. Eligible Australian-based ACP websites and online informational booklets were reviewed by two analysts (APS & PM) for information pertaining to at least one culture or religion. Common characteristics were agreed upon and tabulated with narrative description. Results Seven Australian-based ACP websites were identified with varying degrees of cultural and religious information. Seven Australian-based ACP informational booklets were identified addressing culture or religion, namely of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (n = 5), Sikh (n = 1) and Italian (n = 1) communities. Twenty-one other online resources with cultural and religious information were identified, developed within the context of health and palliative care. Conclusions There is no comprehensive Australian-based ACP website or informational booklet supporting ACP across several cultural and religious contexts. Considering Australia’s multicultural and multifaith population, such a resource may be beneficial in increasing awareness and uptake of ACP. What is known about the topic? Health professionals and consumers frequently use the Internet to find information. Non-regulation has resulted in the proliferation of ACP online resources (i.e. ACP websites and online informational booklets). Although this has contributed to raising awareness of ACP, the availability of Australian-based ACP online resources with cultural and religious information is not well known. What does this paper add? This paper is the first to use an environmental scanning methodology to identify Australian-based ACP websites and online informational booklets with cultural and religious information. What are the implications for practitioners? The results of this environmental scan present the availability of Australian-based ACP websites and online informational booklets containing cultural and religious information. A thorough understanding may assist in identifying gaps for future ACP project planning and policy objectives, consistent with meeting cultural and religious needs. This may be beneficial for health professionals, consumers, health associations, organisations and government policy makers concerned with ACP.

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Bruxner, George, Peter Burvill, Sam Fazio, and Sam Febbo. "Aspects of Psychiatric Admissions of Migrants to Hospitals in Perth, Western Australia." Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 31, no. 4 (August 1997): 532–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/00048679709065075.

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Objective: Recent Australian Government initiatives have emphasised problems with service provision to the ethnic mentally ill. This study aims to address the paucity of contemporary data describing the disposition of the ethnic mentally ill in hospital settings. Method: Patterns of admissions for psychiatric disorders to all hospitals in Perth, Western Australia, for the 3 years from 1990 to 1992, of migrants and the Australian born were compared using data from the Western Australian Mental Health Information System. Results: The overall rates for European migrants showed a ‘normalisation’ towards those of the Australian-born. There were high rates for the schizophrenic spectrum disorders in Polish and Yugoslavian (old terminology) migrants. There were low admission rates for South-East Asian migrants, predominantly those from Vietnam and Malaysia. Rates for alcoholism were low in Italian and all Asian migrants. There were high rates of organic psychosis, especially in those older than 75 years, among the Italian and Dutch migrants. The relative risk of a first admission in the 3 years being an involuntary admission to a mental hospital was almost twice that of the Australian-born for migrants from Poland, Yugoslavia, Malaysia and Vietnam. Conclusions: The results imply the possibility of significant untreated and/or undiagnosed psychiatric morbidity in the South-East Asian-born. They also indicate a need for further exploration of the unexpectedly high levels of psychiatric morbidity among some ethnic elderly groups, specifically the Dutch- and Italian-born. The findings demonstrate the persistence of high rates of presentation for psychotic disorders among Eastern European-born populations, many years post migration.

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Dale, A. J., and A. Tanesini. "Why are Italians more reasonable than Australians?" Analysis 49, no. 4 (October 1, 1989): 189–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/analys/49.4.189.

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Radic, Thérèse. "Major Choral Organizations in Late Nineteenth-Century Melbourne." Nineteenth-Century Music Review 2, no. 2 (November 2005): 3–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479409800002184.

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Australian musical life was founded and sustained for over 150 years by a particular class of displaced British and European professional musicians, mostly men, who brought with them what is now known as Western art music. At the time of Australia's foundation, a number of British musicians (many of them composers at the rudimentary level expected of musicians of the day), unable to find work where Italians and Germans were preferred, opted for migration to the colonies in the hope of trading their way out of a difficult situation. Some took ship to avoid the law (the debt-ridden composer Isaac Nathan for example), some came as farmers or joined the gold rushes, only to fail and have to turn to their musical skills again to earn a living (William Vincent Wallace, composer of one of the nineteenth century's most popular operas, Maritana, comes to mind).

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Possamai, Adam. "An Italian-born Belgo-Australian Sociologist of Religion." Journal for the Academic Study of Religion 32, no. 2-3 (November 4, 2019): 248–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jasr.39972.

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