Behind the Bollettino dell’Emigrazione: Politics, History, and Migration in Italy, 1886-1913

Peter Carravetta, Queens College

This paper addresses the shaping of Italian national political debate from the first defeat of the Italian colonial venture in Africa to the eve of World War I, its interrelatedness to the growing migration problem, the debate on how to account for the exodus, and the need for a specialized publication, the Bollettino, which could be used as a frame of reference for both parliamentary and public press debates as Italy moved into the twentieth century. Slides will be shown.