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Introduction
Born in Rome, migrated to Australia, Simone teaches and coordinates units in Italian Studies, Sociology and Migration Studies.
His expertise is both interdisciplinary and intercultural; it combines an interest in cultural anthropology, sociology of migration, and ethno-musicology. His research interests include Italian transnational diaspora, narratives and identities, and ageing, dementia and wellbeing for people from migrant backgrounds.
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May 2022 - present
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- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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- Simone is an Early Career Researcher (ECR) and Postdoctoral Fellow at Edith Cowan University; Researcher B at The University of Adelaide (Dept. of Anthropology), Researcher at NARI (National Ageing Research Institute); and Honorary Research Fellow at ACIS (Australasian Centre for Italian Studies). Simone's research is both interdisciplinary and intercultural.
January 2010 - February 2023
December 2021 - October 2022
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Publications (38)
The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing restrictions/lockdowns have caused significant physical and psychological consequences for people with cognitive impairment who are heavily dependent on their care-givers. However, little is known about the impact on care-givers, the factors that exacerbate their situation and what supports they need. The aims of t...
A concert to homage some of the participants for the project comunichiamo, on. the exploration of music and first language to support wellbeing among elderly Italian migrants with (and without) cognitive impairment.
Comusichiamo, dementia, migration and identity project interview.
This article highlights a divergence between equivalent cultural practices undertaken by Calabrians in Italy and by individuals originating from Calabria living in Australia. It offers a reflexive framework on identity and authenticity. Previous research on a group of Calabrian-Australian families living in Australia found a widespread feeling amon...
This book focuses on the transmission of ethnic identity across three generations of Italian-Australians, specifically Italian-Australians of Calabrian descent in the Adelaide region of Australia. Simone Marino analyzes ethnographic data collected over a three-year period to consider individual, familial and community cultural practices, as well as...
This chapter focuses on representing the three generations of interest, specifically the participants’ perceptions of ‘being Italian’. This identity appears to be understood differently across the three generations. First, this chapter discusses the apparent struggles of the first-generation participants and some of their children (i.e. the second...
This chapter presents the methodology of the study. There is a reflection on the double role of the researcher in the present study as both outsider and insider—not a spectator, but an engaged participant, sharing a Geertzian ‘web of significance’ with the participants. The chapter also discusses the problematic usage of terms such as generation, e...
This chapter provides a discussion of the theoretical reference points for this study. The first theoretical reference point attempts to interpret the positions of social actors—as Australian individuals originating from Calabria in Italy—in their ethnic perceptions (of being in the world). Specifically, I draw upon Sayad’s (The suffering of the im...
In this chapter, I discuss the implications of the research, and also consider its limitations. The value of the book is to elaborate the trigenerational processes of mutual adaptation related to ethnicity in Australia; its limitation, however, is the analysis of a specific group of first-generation immigrants (rural Calabrians) who manifest ‘very...
In this chapter the focus moves from general perceptions of being Italian to specific cultural sites and practices. These are sites where participating in the life of ‘being an Italian in Australia’ are manifested. I chose the sites reported specifically by the participants—such as Calabrian community clubs and events, stores and businesses, and re...
In this chapter, I present and discuss the key concepts that emerge from the study: institutional positionality, engagement and the relevance of the family. These concepts correspond generally to three spheres of social life: the macro (the mainstream society), the meso (the ethnic community) and the micro (the family). The first key concept, insti...
This chapter focuses on the particular role of the first generation, individuals who were born in Calabria and migrated to Australia. It emerged from the analysis of the ethnographic data that these nonni (Italian grandparents) play a major role in the preservation of those cultural practices that the participants see as Italian. This leads to a di...
In this chapter, I extend the discussion of the sites and practices to the community network. The network, especially the weight of its expectations and worldviews, and the degree to which individuals participate in its social, cultural, familial and religious practices, seems to contribute to a stronger sense of ethnic identity. Emblematic is the...
This chapter provides an outline of the previous literature on ethnic identity and on Italian migrant groups in Australia. Although ethnic identity has been approached from myriads of theories and different academic fields (e.g. anthropology, history and psychology), the common denominator among this vast academic landscape is a tendency to rely on...
This paper examines the spiritual kinship known in Italian as comparatico ‘godparenthood’, as it is practised among families originating from specific rural areas of Calabria, southern Italy, who live in Adelaide, South Australia. In the Catholic rite of baptism, the compare (godparent) is a person who promises to share the responsibility of the ch...
This book focuses on the transmission of ethnic identity across three generations of Italian-Australians, specifically Italian-Australians of Calabrian descent in the Adelaide region of Australia. Simone Marino analyzes ethnographic data collected over a three-year period to consider individual, familial and community cultural practices, as well as...
Forty-one years on from Huber’s study exploring the assimilation of Italian-Australians, an increasing trend towards ethnic revival can be observed among the third generation of immigrants. Drawing on a case study of a family originating from Calabria in the 1950s and now living in Adelaide, South Australia, I find a widespread intergenerational id...
This paper provides a phenomenological reconceptualisation of ethnic identity. Drawing upon a case study of a family originating in Calabria, Italy, and living in Adelaide, South Australia, I consider the way in which the three generations perceive their ‘being ethnic’ across time and space. The first-generation participants were born in Italy and...
The present paper discusses the concept of “double absence” and its legacy across three generations of participants. It seeks to illustrate the impact of this cognitive condition in relation to participants’ personal, interactional, and institutional social fields. Specifically, the study attempts to frame a reflexive picture extrapolated from part...
The paper provides a discussion on the concept of “double absence” and its legacy among participants originating from Calabria, Italy. It illustrates the impact of such an embodied affective state in light of race-ethnic relations perceived intergenerationally. While the first generation of participants manifest a condition of feeling “absent”, the...
The present paper reflects on fieldnotes undertaken as part of a long-term study on the construction and transmission of ethnic identity among families of Italian ancestry in Australia. It seeks specifically to shed light on the “domestic space” of Italian-Australian grandparents’ homes, where the “sense of place” and belonging appear to be embodie...
The present study examines baptism godparenthood, the Italian spiritual kinship system (known as comparatico) among people originating from rural areas of Calabria, southern Italy, who migrated to Adelaide, South Australia, in the 1950s and 1960s. The study specifi cally investigates the transmission of norms and the widespread observance of duties...
The present paper derives from a larger study of Calabrian-Australian families using ethno anthropological research methodologies. Specifically, it investigates the strategies used to overcome migrants' disadvantage by preserving traditional cultural practices and structures in the settler country. The study shows this may be achieved through cultu...
2012 ‘La voce di tutti’ (the people’s voice) Award, Rome City Council Journal,
for the “exceptional quality” of my book Calabrians in Adelaide, the importance of
folklore and tradition in the maintenance of Calabrian identity” by the Director
Special Issues Dr. Enzo Movilia. This is the premier award for anthropological
work in Italy and is assesse...
‘Inpress Magazine magazine’ Award: “The result of Marino's research is an essential product not only from the methodological-theoretical point of view or for comparative study with other European diasporic realities but is crucial for understanding the migratory
phenomenon as a 'total social fact' revealing the socio-ethno-anthropological and
polit...
