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This article focuses on Yitzhak Katzenelson – a pedagogue, playwright and poet from Łódź – and his work on the epic poem The Song of the Murdered Jewish People written in Vittel and published in Paris in 1945. The Vittel internment camp for foreigners served as the first destination for Polish Jews with travel documents from Latin American countries, obtained primarily in the Warsaw ghetto in the so-called ‘Hotel Polski Affair’. Their final destination was Auschwitz, where they perished on arrival in May 1944. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to outline the practices of social interaction between individuals and/or social groups in the urban spaces of our cities. Cities represent the most suitable context for analyzing the interactive dynamics between foreigners and residents. The cities have always offered opportunities for foreigners to meet and they represent a pole of attraction for individuals and groups looking for opportunities. This phenomenon has made them free spaces for the coexistence of people with different social and cultural backgrounds (Mantovan 2015; Simmel 1903). Observing the daily practices of coexistence it is possible overcoming a normative vision that considers the individuals within rigid categories, highlighting how concretely subjects build and redefine their relationships and identity day by day (Colombo 2015). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to analyze the representation of migrants in the Italian media, we focused on three months of the main Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, selecting all the articles with the keyword "migrants". The content analysis shows that the narrative of the medium describes foreigners 1. as an abstract and depersonalized group, where it is not possible to discover any individuality; 2. as "flows", "quotas" or "abstract problems" described in an "alarmist" way. This alarm is not generated by migrants' characteristics (ethnicity, religion, values, behavior, features that are infrequent in the articles) but by the numbers related to the phenomenon, always "exaggerated", "record", "emergent". This journalistic representation describes migrants in an abstract and depersonalized way as "emergencies", "problems" and "numbers" and the resultant narrative seems to produce indifference to the phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction. This special issue gathers articles that, by acknowledging the political dimension of migration policymaking, highlight the pressures that legal systems regulating the position of foreigners undergo in Italian and international contexts. In particular, governing migration is a battlefield that can be explored properly only if both enacted norms and implemented practices are considered. This introduction summarizes key foci discussed in the collected articles, spanning from the legal status of foreigners to asylum-seekers reception system via the spatial and professional reframing of the norms in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This Article briefly refers to the use of sociolinguistic aspects in the acquisition and teaching of Italian language to foreigners. Emphasise the need for full teaching so that the student assimilates, in addition to language forms, all the socio-cultural aspects needed to achieve full training. It is therefore important not only to be able to understand the language, but to be able to juggle effectively and with efficience in the social and not just individual use of the language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of 20th-century poetic Dantism, Czesław Miłosz’s oeuvre (1911- 2004) functions as an “intersectional space” among different lines of intertextual and intercultural relations, involving Polish, French, Russian, Anglo-American, and Anglo-Irish literary traditions. This study discusses the “accumulation” (a term first used by Eliot) of a threefold presence of Dante – explicit, invisible and unconscious – in Miłosz’s literary production. The study of the sites in which such connections are best revealed can be illuminating, together with the investigation of the influence on Miłoszian Dantism of translingual, expatriates, exiles or stateless writers who acted as bridges between different cultures, such as Conrad, Eliot, Pound, Brzozowski, Brodskij, Heaney, and in particular Oscar Milosz, Czesław’s distant Franco-Lithuanian relative and his first guide into the riches of the Divine Comedy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The essay presents a research started in 2016 at the University for Foreigners of Perugia and dedicated to the learning of post-basic Italian by adult foreigners permanently residing in Perugia. The results of the survey will be published in a forthcoming volume entitled 'Il muro della lingua: stranieri residenti e l'apprendimento dell'italiano avanzato' (The language barrier: resident foreigners and advanced Italian learning). The first part addresses the issue of learning immigrants' identity, drawing on the definition of Straniero Residente proposed by Donatella Di Cesare. In the second part, I briefly describe the groups of informants and the structure of the questionnaire. The third section provides some examples and illustrates the methodological choices for the linguistics data analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Italy is a true migratory crossroad, with a comparable number of Italian citizens living abroad, and of foreigners living in the peninsula. This decade's novelty is a renewed emigration from Italy, with very different characteristics from those of post-war intra-European migration. This difference is due to the flow's social composition (previously proletarian, currently mixed); to the higher level of education (even if only about one fourth are graduates); to a female component moving in autonomy and not as an accompanying family member; to the regional origin not only tied to traditionally poor areas; to the fact that work continues to be the most important motivator, although there are many non-economic reasons. The article illustrates these new features and the factors that determine them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A wave of mistrust in aliens swept Brazil between 1930 and 1945. Starting with 1938, this feeling led to the enactment of a package of measures, known as nationalization laws, aiming at regulating the behaviour of the immigrants and their offspring. Against this backdrop, the Italian community was subjected to restrictions and controls on the part of the political police that, in 1942, began to target specifically those members charged with spreading Italy's Fascist propaganda in Brazil. This essay analyzes a specific aspect of the judiciary policy that Getúlio Vargas' government carried out: the control and repression mechanics used by the Departamento Estatual de Ordem Política e Social do Estado de São Paulo (deops) between 1938 and 1945. To this end, the article focuses on a few events within the Italian community as an exemplification of such practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses how the legal distinction between subjects or citizens and foreigners evolved in civil courts in Naples, Italy, via cases involving foreign merchants, consuls, and magistrates, among others. Among other topics addressed are analogous scholarly work of German historian Margrit Schulte Beerbühl studying German merchants in London, England, similar cases in Spain and Portugal, and the practical legal effects of the 30 Years' War on foreign merchants resident in a given country.

The article discusses a meeting on the role of foreigners during World War I in Italy sponsored by the Piemontese Society of Archeology and Fine Arts was held in University Rectorate of Turin, Italy from October 18-20, 2018.