Mobility and Belonging: A Study of Italian Youth Diaspora in Australia.

Abstract

This research report presents and discusses the preliminary findings of a mixed-methods research project examining Italian youth mobility to and formations of belonging in Australia. The project is an international collaboration between the Youth Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and the Department of Educational Science at the Universidad Tre di Roma, Italy. It aims to explore how new forms of belonging are constructed by Italian youth and young adults in their host country, Australia. The project examines the social and personal resources needed by recently arrived young Italians to succeed in developing relationships and spaces of belonging through, for example, t..