10.26180/5b90701f270d4
MARIA SPIZZICA
MARIA
SPIZZICA
A war within a war: Impacts of internment on Italians in Australia during World War Two
Monash University
2018
Italian Studies; Italian Diaspora; Australian Studies; Conflict Studies; Social Anthropology; Memory Studies; Social Psychology; Migration Studies
Literature in Italian
Life Histories
Anthropology
Migration
Social and Community Psychology
Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature)
2018-09-06 00:09:01
Thesis
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/A_war_within_a_war_Impacts_of_internment_on_Italians_in_Australia_during_World_War_Two/7052117
This thesis examines the immediate and long-term impacts of civilian internment on Australia's Italians during WW2. As a blended socio-anthropological and historical study, the study includes interviews with Italians who were held in Australia’s internment camps. The study explores some of the unintended adverse outcomes of wartime detention of civilians from enemy nations. The findings suggest that transgenerational memory of war can endure as unresolved grief or hidden memory trauma over multiple generations.