Lifting the veil: migrant murder, a 'madre italiana', and the politics of transnational colonisation

Dewhirst, Catherine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5278-0075 (2011) Lifting the veil: migrant murder, a 'madre italiana', and the politics of transnational colonisation. Studi Emigrazione, 48 (184). pp. 653-674. ISSN 0039-2936

Abstract

The Italian imperialist program of the period before the Great War went beyond the project to annex other Mediterranean territories in order to include the colonization of the immigrant communities. Today, historians tend to concentrate on Italian foreign policy rather than on the perspective and experience of migration. This essay begins with a murder case in the United States to show a type of Italian response to the international agenda, by deepening the role of the press abroad, and especially of a newspaper editor. The analysis of the pressures on a worker who emigrated from southern Italy allows us to evaluate the function of gender, class and race in the discourse of transnational politics.

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Item Type:	Article (Commonwealth Reporting Category C)
Refereed:	Yes
Item Status:	Live Archive
Faculty/School / Institute/Centre:	Historic - Faculty of Arts - School of Humanities and Communication (1 Apr 2011 - 30 Jun 2013)
Faculty/School / Institute/Centre:	Historic - Faculty of Arts - School of Humanities and Communication (1 Apr 2011 - 30 Jun 2013)
Date Deposited:	14 Feb 2012 05:37
Last Modified:	05 Feb 2019 04:08
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Italian imperialism; southern Italian women; migration; crime; Italian migrant press
Fields of Research (2008):	21 History and Archaeology > 2103 Historical Studies > 210307 European History (excl. British, Classical Greek and Roman) 21 History and Archaeology > 2103 Historical Studies > 210312 North American History 16 Studies in Human Society > 1608 Sociology > 160803 Race and Ethnic Relations
Fields of Research (2020):	43 HISTORY, HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 4303 Historical studies > 430308 European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman) 43 HISTORY, HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 4303 Historical studies > 430321 North American history 44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4410 Sociology > 441013 Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism
Socio-Economic Objectives (2008):	C Society > 95 Cultural Understanding > 9505 Understanding Past Societies > 950506 Understanding the Past of the Americas
URI:	http://eprints.usq.edu.au/id/eprint/20650

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