It has been over 20 years since Donna R. Gabaccia's seminal work Italy's Many Diasporas was published (London & New York, 2000), an overview of the social, cultural and economic history of Italy's various migrations. Much has changed since then, but this book remains a classic. In this roundtable, historians Lucy Riall, Pamela Ballinger and Konstantina Zanou reflect on the value of Gabaccia's work and on the historical moment of its production. They discuss with the author the developments in the historiography of Italian and other diasporas during the last two decades, and offer insights on new avenues of research including settler colonialism, race and belonging, migration and environmental change, global microhistory and biography, and the Mediterranean context of Italy's migrations.

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意大利侨民：Donna R. Gabaccia、Lucy Riall、Pamela Ballinger 和 Konstantina Zanou 之间的讨论

唐娜·R·加巴恰 (Donna R. Gabaccia) 的开创性工作已经过去 20 多年了意大利的众多侨民出版了（伦敦和纽约，2000 年），概述了意大利各种移民的社会、文化和经济历史。从那时起，很多事情都发生了变化，但这本书仍然是经典。在这次圆桌会议上，历史学家露西·里亚尔 (Lucy Riall)、帕梅拉·巴林格 (Pamela Ballinger) 和康斯坦蒂娜·扎努 (Konstantina Zanou) 反思了加巴恰作品的价值及其创作的历史时刻。他们与作者讨论了过去二十年意大利和其他侨民史学的发展，并提供了对新研究途径的见解，包括定居者殖民主义、种族和归属、移民和环境变化、全球微观历史和传记以及地中海意大利移民的背景。