Italian mobility played a fundamental part in the history of the peninsula, since it was a global phenomenon reaching every continent except Antarctica. The Italian diaspora counted over 26 million expatriates who left the country between 1876 and 1976 and, to date, Italy remains one of the states that has contributed the most to the Great European Migration. Although impressive, these figures do not take into account pre-unitary Italian mobilities or Italian settlements in colonial territories. By adopting the perspective of environmental history of migration, this collection of essays allows us to consider various contextually embedded migratory environments, creating a means to find common constitutive features that allow us to explore and identify Italianness. Specifically, in this special issue, we intend to investigate how Italians transformed remote foreign environments in resemblances of their distant faraway homeland, their paesi, as well as used them as a means of materially re-imagining landscapes of Italianness. In return, their collective and individual identities were transformed by the new surroundings.

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意大利环境：意大利移民的环境史

意大利人的流动性在半岛的历史中发挥了重要作用，因为它是一种全球现象，遍及除南极洲以外的每个大陆。意大利侨民在 1876 年至 1976 年期间离开该国的侨民人数超过 2600 万，迄今为止，意大利仍然是对欧洲大迁徙做出最大贡献的国家之一。尽管令人印象深刻，但这些数字并未考虑意大利统一前的流动性或意大利在殖民地领土上的定居点。通过采用迁徙环境史的视角，这本论文集使我们能够考虑各种嵌入在语境中的迁徙环境，创造了一种寻找共同构成特征的方法，使我们能够探索和识别意大利性. 具体而言，在本期特刊中，我们打算调查意大利人如何将偏远的外国环境转变为与他们遥远的祖国相似的地方，他们的派西，以及将它们用作物质上重新想象风景的手段意大利性. 作为回报，他们的集体和个人身份被新环境所改变。