Americans in Tuscany
Subtitle: charity, compassion, and belonging
By: Catherine Trundle
Series: New directions in anthropology -- volume 36
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781782383697; 9781782383703
Subjects: Women immigrants; Social conditions; Immigrants; Cultural assimilation; Americans; Social service; Compassion; Emigration and immigration; Social aspects; Social integration; Assimilation (Sociology)
Description: "Since the time of the Grand Tour, the Italian region of Tuscany has sustained a highly visible American and Anglo migrant community. Today American women continue to migrate there, many in order to marry Italian men. Confronted with experiences of social exclusion, unfamiliar family relations, and new cultural terrain, many women struggle to build local lives. In the first ethnographic monograph of Americans in Italy, Catherine Trundle argues that charity and philanthropy are the central means by which many American women negotiate a sense of migrant belonging in Italy. This book traces women"--publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.