We are currently in an era characterized by rapid movement; movement of people, products, resources, and information both within and beyond national boundaries. In this paper, I examine the movement not only of Italians (and more specifically Racalmutesi) to Canada, but also of Canadian Italians to Italy and other locations. As part of this discussion, my aim is to explore the role of nostalgia in people’s conceptions of the interrelationships among movement, ethnic identity, and their sense of “home.”

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• Migliore, S., (2025), "Mobility, Nostalgia, and Ethnic Identity: The Racalmutesi Experience in Canada, and Beyond", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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1. identity
2. Italian Canadiana
3. Mobility
4. Nostalgia and Wellbeing
5. religion

Original publication: Migliore, Sam. "Mobility, Nostalgia, and Ethnic Identity: The Racalmutesi Experience in Canada, and Beyond." Italian Canadiana 35: 2021. 269-284. DOI: 10.33137/ic.v35i0.37233. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Italian Canadiana. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Italian Canadiana under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.