1. Immigrants and immigrant activism -- Framing a theoretical context -- Background histories of FILEF -- Research strategy, methodology and sources -- 2. The politicisation of Italian emigration -- Post-war Italian emigration: an overview -- A political and politicised issue -- The FILEF organisation and the PCI emigration office -- 3. Italian immigrants in Australia -- Gates wide open -- Bonegilla -- The making of a community -- A new type of Italian arrives -- 4. Italian immigrant activity and grassroots organisations -- Italian politics before the Whitlam era -- The Italian-style road to socialism and the PCI in Australia -- From the Italo-Australian League to the FILEF experience -- 5. Left-wing Italian activism under threat -- FILEF - a threat to conservatives -- 'Italian communists move in' -- Local anti-communist hysteria and backlash -- 6. The short- and long-term consequences of a controversial deportation case: Salemi v MacKellar -- Challenging the unchallengeable -- The politicisation of the case and its legacy -- Towards the end of a turbulent decade
Analysis
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