2016/2017

2016/2017

DM270

M-STO/04 (CONTEMPORARY HISTORY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES

Lettere moderne

1°

(26/09/2016 - 11/01/2017)

6

36 lesson hours

italian

ORAL TEST

SIGNORI ELISA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Students can apply this course after having attended section A of Contemporary History.

The course’s goal is to analyze specific phenomena and topics in contemporary history, focusing on the results of historiographical debate, past and going on, and leading students to a direct approach to sources and original documents.

The course aims to deepen the phenomenon of  italian migration in Italian history Italian and European dimension: the attention will focus therefore on '' Ulysses 'collective' of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the routes of emigration and immigration in Europe and overseas. Focusing his gaze to departures, to arrivals, to returns will discuss the political and institutional dynamics of the areas of origin and of adoption, the statistical survey methods, reference economic frameworks, the different social actors during more than hundred years of mobility (1876-1980). In this perspective we will analyze different documentary sources - institutional, literary, archival, memoirs,iconographic-and the outlines of historiography will be discussed.

lectures, seminars.

All students are required to study on the books and essays below 1, 2, 3:
1. P.AUDENINO, M.TIRABASSI, Migrazioni italiane. Storia e storie dall’Ancien Régime ad oggi, Bruno Mondadori, Milano 2008, pp.21-150
2. R. SALA, L'emigrazione italiana in Europa dal boom economico alla fine dei grandi flussi, in Migrazioni, Storia d’Italia, Annali 24, Torino Einaudi 2009;
3. M. S. GARRONI , E. VEZZOSI, Italiane migranti, ivi;
Furthermore they are required to read one more book chosen from the following list:
1. Il fascismo e gli emigrati : la parabola dei fasci italiani all'estero, 1920-1943 a cura di E. FRANZINA E M. SANFILIPPO, Roma, Laterza, 2003;
2. E. SCARZANELLA, Italiani malagente : immigrazione, criminalità, razzismo in Argentina, 1890-1940 , Milano, Angeli, 1999;
3. M. COLUCCI, Lavoro in movimento : l'emigrazione italiana in Europa, 1945-57 ,Roma , Donzelli, 2008.
4. S. RINAURO, Il cammino della speranza : l'emigrazione clandestina degli italiani nel secondo dopoguerra Torino : Einaudi, 2009;
Those students who are not going to attend the class are supposed to study the books over indicated (1, 2, 3) and to study two more books chosen from the list (1-4).

oral examination