["Returning to the Village" - Piedmontese and Sicilians living in France and their experience of going home]
(2009) Diasporas-histoire Et Societes — n° 14, p. 33-+ (2009)
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- "Returning to the Village" - Piedmontese and Sicilians living in France and their experience of going home. This study of the migrations of two groups of Italians, the Piedmontese and the Sicilians, who emigrated to South-Eastern France during the Second World War, reveals the the different types of mobility between the ancestral village and the new place of residence. Questions are raised concerning the function and the implications of such sojourns in the home village as far as the emigrants are concerned, but also for those left behind, be they family members or neighbours. What do such journeys mean for the people who undertake them ? Is the home village merely a place for family reunions or does it serve some other purpose ? Attitudes towards the home village, far from being homogeneous, are both disparate and complex among the two migrant groups, the Piedmontese and the Sicilians.
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Sirna, F. (2009). [“Returning to the Village” - Piedmontese and Sicilians living in France and their experience of going home]. Diasporas-histoire Et Societes, 14, 33-+. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/42598 (Original work published 2009)