Migration across three continents : the d’Angelis family

The article deals with the long migration of an Italian family. Its main aim is to unveil hidden links between migration, memory and the formation of a cultural identity highly influenced by personal re-elaborations of the family’s Italian origin. The process of migration has been elaborated by many...

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Main Author: Antonella Viola
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Language:deu
Published: Conserveries Mémorielles 2013-03-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cm/1308
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description The article deals with the long migration of an Italian family. Its main aim is to unveil hidden links between migration, memory and the formation of a cultural identity highly influenced by personal re-elaborations of the family’s Italian origin. The process of migration has been elaborated by many family members in a peculiar way ; they have constructed their own memory using a wide-range of real and fictive elements which helped them make sense of long and unusual migration. A family memory based on personal recollections and elements deriving from the family’s past -re-articulated according to specific individual needs. This family memory influenced the formation of a mixed cultural identity within which Italianess is considered as a distinctive feature of the family’s background. By analyzing the experience of the D’Angelis family, the article provides new insights into how people of mixed cultural heritage feel and interpret migration through the sieve of memory and construct their own specific identitary models.
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Migration across three continents : the d’Angelis family
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title Migration across three continents : the d’Angelis family
title_full Migration across three continents : the d’Angelis family
title_fullStr Migration across three continents : the d’Angelis family
title_full_unstemmed Migration across three continents : the d’Angelis family
title_short Migration across three continents : the d’Angelis family
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