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Mussolini’s mobilities : transnational movements between Fascist Italy and Italian communities abroad
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Pretelli, Matteo (2015) Mussolini’s mobilities : transnational movements between Fascist Italy and Italian communities abroad. Journal of Migration History, Volume 1 (Number 1). pp. 100-120. ISSN 2351-9916.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23519924-00101006
Abstract
This article taps into a growing literature interested in the multifold relations between sending-states and their migrants who have settled in foreign countries. Specifically, it considers circular and transnational (symbolic and concrete) mobility that Mussolini’s Italy put in motion towards, and including, its communities of emigrants. The dictator
sought to use migrants as lobbies and incorporate them in a totalitarian building-state project in Italy. With the objective of reinforcing ties with the communities themselves and obtaining their consent, the fascist regime established an outflow of propagandistic materials and a network of travellers who were entrusted to export a ‘visual presence’
of the homeland outside of Italy. At the same time, Rome encouraged ethnic Italians to undertake root-tourism in Italy to observe the supposed ‘achievements’ accomplished by the regime in the homeland. After the proclamation of the Italian empire in 1936, fascism elevated its tone and by the outbreak of the Second World War the regime sought the repatriation of Italians settled abroad. Yet this project failed
because of the unwillingness of migrants to betray their host countries and favour the imperialist designs of the Italian dictator.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures > Italian | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Migration History | ||||
Publisher: | Brill | ||||
ISSN: | 2351-9916 | ||||
Official Date: | 2015 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 1 | ||||
Number: | Number 1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 100-120 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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