LANG8508 Settling in Australia: the Italian, Greek and French experience

Professor Eric Bouvet

2012

4.5

1 x 2-hour seminar weekly

1 of HUMN2201, LANG2005, LANG8301 has been successfully completed

This topic seeks to introduce students to the phenomenon and dynamics of southern European migration to Australia with an emphasis on three groups: Italians, Greeks and French, each of which, in the Australian and specifically South Australian context, has both distinctive and common characteristics. The topic examines reasons for migration, settlement patterns, and the development of communities in the 20th Century. Also considered are issues concerning identity, language, second/third generations, cultural maintenance and transfers, and migration today as a trans-national phenomenon.

This topic aims to:

address the principal patterns, processes, events and protagonists in the history of Italian, Greek and French migration abroad, and of settlement in Australia, both singly and in comparative terms
provide students with the opportunity to develop skills in archival searches related to Italian, Greek and French migration to Australia
compare and contrast attitudes to, and opinions of, migrants from these three groups, and their descendants

On completion of this topic students will have knowledge and skills in:

understanding, evaluating, comparing and contrasting the main issues related to Italian, Greek and French migration to Australia, together with community attitudes to, and opinions of, Italian, Greek and French migrants and their descendants
recognising, recalling and discussing in writing the principal patterns, processes, events and protagonists in the history of Italian, Greek and French migration abroad and of settlement in Australia, both singly and in comparative terms
summarising, comparing, contrasting and critiquing texts, in both oral and written formats, relating to Italian, Greek and French migration

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