What does it mean to be an Italian in Australia, & has the act of migration itself shaped this sense of identity?

On Afternoon Light #175 Georgina Downer speaks with Francesco Ricatti, author of Italians in Australia, about the impetus, complexities, tribulations and effects of Italy’s vast population movements. A process which served to ‘create’ Italy, almost as much as it exported the idea.

Francesco Ricatti is the Associate Professor of Italian and convenor of the Italian Studies programme at the Australian National University. He has a PhD from the University of Sydney and was previously Cassamarca Lecturer in Italian at the University of the Sunshine Coast. He is the author of Italians in Australia: History, Memory, Identity and Embodying Migrants: Italians in Postwar Australia.