Ítalo-Brasileiros na Itália no século XXI: "retorno" à terra dos antepassados, impasses e expectativas

Our objetive is to analyze, springing from an historiographic and ethnographic perspective, some situations involving Italian-Brazilians (from Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina) who migrated to Italy (since the nineties of the twentieth century). We intend to understand how this process was driven by the expectation of "return" to the land of the ancestors and the symbolic aspects associated and to analyze, too, as the source category (Italian) has been thrown by the descendants migrants and the importance it played in their trajectories.