Visits home : migration experiences between Italy and Australia

Emigration is often perceived as a one-way journey-leaving one's homeland and arriving in, and adjusting to, a new country. In fact, it can be a much more complex and long-drawn-out process than this. The small village of San Fior lies in northeastern Italy. Between 1900 and 1997, more than 200 of its residents emigrated to Perth, forming a closely linked Italian-Australian community. Many of them, and their Australian-born children and grandchildren, have since made "visits home". This book explores the effect of these visits, both on those who left San Fior and those who stayed there.