Visits Home

Download or read book Visits Home written by Loretta Baldassar and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 2001 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of autobiographical interviews relating the migrant experience. Over 200 residents of a village in north eastern Italy emigrated to Perth between 1900 and 1997.Related are stories of visits home to Italy. Their stories have the themes of homesickness, farewells and reunions. Explores the sense of homelessness experienced and looks at the relationships between immigrants and their homelands and between place and identity. Concludes that visits home are central to the identity of immigrants and their children. Appendices provide migration charts, genealogies, and data on visits. Includes glossary, notes, bibliography and index. Author is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Western Australia.