Ricerc@Sapienza

The objective of this essay is to offer an original contribution to the issue of Italian migration to Africa from a historical-economic perspective. Our research will consider the motivations that led many Italians to emigrate to Tunisia and Libya and, secondly, it will explore what was the return path from Tunisia and Libya for Italian emigrants. The cases discussed investigate two different realities of Italian emigration, a ‘free’ migration toward a country colonised by others and a migration imposed and sponsored by the Italiangovernment.

This essay on colonial identity in post-war
Italian and British Cinema (1945‒1960) traces the common themes in film
representations of colonialism, highlighting the prevalence of key concepts
such as the supposed humanitarian and modernising nature of colonialism,
the celebration of its conquests, and the individual and collective value of
sacrifice.

Through an analysis of travel accounts and memoirs of Hariprabha Takeda, this article
studies the experiences of a Bengali traveller / migrant to Japan in the first half of the 20th century.
It argues that the notion of a pan-Asian identity based on a shared cultural heritage, which was being
debated and popularized in early 20th century India, partly shaped her understanding of the society
and culture of her new habitation. Focusing on the issues of integration, identity and rootedness,