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Introduction: Transcultural Italies

The history of Italians and of Italian culture stems from multiple experiences of mobility and migration. While those experiences mark the history of the peninsula well before the formation of the Italian state, since the time of unification, in particular, a series of narratives about mobility and nation has been produced both inside and outside the boundaries of Italy by agents such as the Italian state, international organizations or migrant communities themselves. Statistical data, disciplinary canons and historical accounts are just some of the instruments that have been deployed to construct representations of what it means to be ‘Italian’. Notions of citizenship and national borders have been variously constructed by essentializing conceptualizations of language, culture or heritage. Narratives may have converged or diverged over time, but they have all aimed to stabilize and fix the inherently dynamic and plural nature of Italian identities and cultures. And, while mobility is at the heart of all these narratives, the value attached to it can be positive or negative, and is often ambivalent....