http://hdl.handle.net/2328/583 2013-05-21T14:46:52Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/15081 Title: Introduction Authors: O'Connor, Desmond John Abstract: Overview of a special issue devoted to aspects of Italian settlement in Australia stemming from an international conference held at Flinders University in September 2007 entitled "Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities". 2008-11-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/8181 Title: Review of 'Australians in Italy: Contemporary Lives and Impressions' ed. Bill Kent, Ros Pesman and Cynthia Troup. Authors: O'Connor, Desmond John Abstract: Review of 'Australians in Italy: Contemporary Lives and Impressions' ed. Bill Kent, Ros Pesman and Cynthia Troup. 2010-04-29T12:29:27Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1504 Title: Adopting and adapting: Italian settlement in South Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. [abstract]. Authors: O'Connor, Desmond John Abstract: The biggest influx of Italians to Australia, including South Australia, occurred during the 1950s and 1960s as a result of the Australian government’s post-war immigration programme, which attempted to meet the perceived need to populate Australia and to supply labour for the nation’s expanding industries. In the two decades 1950-1970 over a quarter of a million Italians migrated to Australia, 30,000 of whom (12%) settled in South Australia. This paper considers some social and cultural implications of the settlement of Italians in South Australia during these two decades. Extensive use is made of the life experiences of a number of SA Italians who have been interviewed during the last ten years. 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2328/1091 Title: Viva il Duce: The Influence of Fascism on Italians in South Australia in the 1920s and 1930s Authors: O'Connor, Desmond John Abstract: The first big increase of the size of the Italian community in Australia occurred after World War I, due mainly to the tightening up by the USA of its immigration laws, including the application of a quota system, and also to the introduction by the Italian shipping line Lloyd Sabaudo of a direct link between Italy and Australia. As a result, the number of Italians in Australia more than tripled in the 1920s and 1930s, growing from 8000 in 1921 to 30000 in the period before the Second World War. In South Australia the increase was six-fold: from an official census figure of just 344 in 1921 to about 2000 by 1940. With the rise to power of Mussolini in 1922 the Fascist government started organising Fascist Party branches abroad with the aim of 'fascistising' throughout the world Italian migrants and their activities. 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z