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Bezig met laden... From the mountains to the bush : Italian migrants write home from Australia, 1860-1962 (2000)door Jacqueline Templeton
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 [T]he people of the poor Valtellina region in Northern Italy increasingly looked abroad for opportunities to realise their hopes and dreams. In a series of 'chain migrations', where pioneering emigrants funded those to follow, hundreds, then thousands, arrived in Australia, settling initially in the gold regions on the 1850s and 1860s, then more often in Western Australia and Queensland in industries such as logging and cutting and growing sugar cane. After interruptions in the wars, and with a slightly changing character due to urban demands for workers, the migrations continued for over a century. ... This is an excellent collection, an intriguing book, for which plaudits are well-deserved. It is a fine tribute to Jackie's scholarship, a fine tribute to her from her colleagues and students, and a fine tribute to those same people who found the time and energy to realise the dreams of a recently departed and much-loved friend and fellow. Posthumously and handsomely published, this book is a poignant tribute to its author’s magnificent obsession’. For a decade before her sudden death in April 2000, the Melbourne historian Jacqueline Templeton had pursued her interest in the migrations to Australia of Italians from the Valtellina, a province of Sondrio in Lombardy, high up in the Alpine and prealpine zones of northern Italy, close to the present-day border with Switzerland. On the day following the completion of her manuscript, Templeton was diagnosed with a terminal illness and told that she had only months to live. That night she suffered a severe stroke; three days later she was dead. Family and friends grieved for the loss of a vibrant and charming woman. As this book testifies, with Templeton’s too-sudden passing, the world of scholarship suffered its own terrible blow.
This path-breaking study explores the experience of Valtellinese migrants to Australia between 1860 and 1953. Jackie Templeton employs the letters exchanged between the Italian migrants and their families to trace the extraordinary story of these sojourners who journeyed from the mountains to the bush. Complemented by fascinating family and social histories, 124 letters are reproduced in full. The Valtellinese did vital work and enriched their communities of adoption from the mining camps of Western Australia to the cane fields of north Queensland. Many long-term sojourners became permanent migrants who inevitably had to ask themselves, "Where is home?" Letters were the means by which, during long absences from home and loved ones, they attempted to maintain contact with their parents, siblings, wives and children, and to preserve some sense of continuity and stability. Today their letters allow us to peer behind the "salt-water curtain" and understand both sides of the migration story. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)305.851094Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Ethnic and national groups ; racism, multiculturalism Italians, Romanians, related groups ItaliansLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: Geen beoordelingen.Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |
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