http://hdl.handle.net/2328/52 2013-05-21T07:57:58Z 2013-05-21T07:57:58Z O'Connor, Desmond John http://hdl.handle.net/2328/178 2013-05-13T01:59:55Z 2003-12-01T00:00:00Z

Title: From Tobruk to Clare: the experiences of the Italian prisoner of war Luigi Bortolotti 1941-1946 Authors: O'Connor, Desmond John Abstract: The paper explores the personal account of an Italian prisoner of war, Luigi Bortolotti (1916-1980), who has left a 300-page diary manuscript that relates his experiences from the time of his capture in Tobruk in 1941 until he was repatriated to Italy in 1946. After being placed in camps in Ismailia and Suez, Bortolotti was shipped to Australia where he spent nearly three years in the POW camp at Hay (New South Wales). Early in 1944 he was sent to work on a farm in Clare, South Australia, a country town to which he would return to settle as a migrant in 1948. The paper follows Bortolotti’s daily, often mundane account of his life as a POW in the context of the events of the time and highlights the mental and physical stress and sense of hopelessness that he and many other Italian POWs felt in the Hay camp during their years of confinement. It re-evaluates what has too easily been labeled the “fair treatment” of Italian POWs in Australia and a wartime experience that has been called “not a bad thing”.

2003-12-01T00:00:00Z Todisco, Enrico Brandi, Maria Carolina Tattolo, Giovanna http://hdl.handle.net/2328/175 2013-05-13T01:27:10Z 2003-12-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Skilled migration: a theoretical framework and the case of foreign researchers in Italy Authors: Todisco, Enrico; Brandi, Maria Carolina; Tattolo, Giovanna Abstract: Different solutions are called for in order to resolve the difficulty of finding a satisfactory definition of migration. In this paper the authors propose dividing migratory movements into two distinct major categories: economic migration and non-economic migration. Economic migration can, in turn, be divided into two separate categories: mass migration and skilled migration. Both micro differences (that relate to single individuals) and macro differences (related to the economies of the countries involved) are analysed. In the category of skilled migrants are included people such as scientists and researchers, international consultants, employees of international organisations, managers of multinational businesses, professionals, clergy, artists, actors, tourism operators, athletes, specially qualified workers, military personnel, and university students. The characteristics of each group are illustrated in the paper. Since the traits that identify skilled migration are not generally considered negative, unlike the characteristics of mass migration, but have today become more and more a part of professional life, it is preferable not to talk any longer of “brain drain” but rather of “brain movements” or “brain circulation”. As an illustration of skilled migration, the present paper provides the results of a survey carried out in Italy in public research institutes. In the study, 241 especially designed questionnaires were collected from foreign researchers who were working in these research institutes in 2001. The paper analyses their socio-demographic characteristics, the typologies of employment, the duration of their stay in Italy, their reasons for moving and their return home.

2003-12-01T00:00:00Z Taler, Fiona http://hdl.handle.net/2328/165 2013-05-13T01:27:10Z 2003-12-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Erec y Enide by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (2003) [review] Authors: Taler, Fiona Abstract: A review of 'Erec y Enide' by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán published by Debolsillo 2003. ISBN 84-9759-445-2 (vol. 511/1). The use of myth to illustrate the malaise of present day society is neither new nor original in contemporary literature, but it is not often attended by analysis of such scholarly splendour as it is within this text. Vázquez Montalbán’s novel 'Erec y Enide' is named after the work of the same name by Chrétien de Troyes (ca. 1175), in which the adventures of Geraint (Erec) are narrated as he drives his unfortunate wife, Enid (Enide) through innumerable dangers in order to prove his love for her as well as his valour as a knight of Arthur’s round table. In Vázquez Montalbán’s novel, Chrétien’s text is the most elaborately worked, but it is not the only Arthurian myth represented.

2003-12-01T00:00:00Z Lorenzin, Maria Elena http://hdl.handle.net/2328/164 2013-05-13T01:27:12Z 2003-12-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Noticias: An Advanced Intermediate Content-Based Course by Alan Bell, Ana Maria Schwartz (2002) [review] Authors: Lorenzin, Maria Elena Abstract: A review of 'Noticias: An Advanced Intermediate Content-Based Course' by Alan Bell and Ana Maria Schwartz published by McGraw-Hill 2002. ISBN 007233360X. 'Noticias', es un innovador método de español cuyo estudio integrado de la gramática ofrece interesantes opciones para un nivel que hasta hace muy poco no presentaba muchas alternativas. Su atrayente programa de actividades resulta apropiado para cursos del tercer nivel en los que se quiera incorporar contenidos motivadores para aprender la gramática de forma activa. Para cumplir con este objetivo, los autores introducen gradualmente una gran variedad de textos auténticos tomados de las más diversas fuentes del mundo hispanohablante.

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