The University of Western Australia
Professor Loretta Baldassar
Professor
Contact details
| Address | Anthropology and Sociology The University of Western Australia (M255) 35 Stirling Highway CRAWLEY WA 6009 Australia |
|---|---|
| Phone | 6488 3997 |
| Fax | 6488 1062 |
| baldassa@arts.uwa.edu.au |
Key research
- Teaching of migration, culture and identity, sociological perspectives on Australian society, social inequality, Australian studies, introduction to sociology and introduction to Australian society. Research interests include migration studies, ethnicity, second generation migrant identities, diaspora studies, Australian settler societies, multiculturalism, citizenship, Italy/the anthropology of Mediterranean societies, cross-cultural health care.
Major research interests
- Ageing
- Australian settler society
- Ethnicity, race relations, migration and second generation
- Medical anthropology and sociology
- Transnationalism, transnational families
- Women, gender, sexuality
Qualifications
BSc PhD W.Aust.
Publications
Books:
Baldassar, L., Baldock, C., & Wilding, R. (2007) Families Caring Across Borders: Migration, Aging and Transnational Caregiving. London: Palgrave MacMillan.
Baldassar, L. & Pesman, R. (2005) From Paesani to Global Italians: Veneto Migrants in Australia. Crawley, University of Western Australia Press. [Italian translation published (2004) I Veneti in Australia: sfide di storia contemporanea. Padua: ANEA].
Baldassar, L. (2001) Visits Home: migration experiences between Italy and Australia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press (winner NSW Premier's Literary Award, Community Relations Section)
Chapters and journal articles:
Baldassar, L. (2007) 'Transnational Families and aged care: the mobility of care and the migrancy of ageing', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 33 (2):275-297.
Baldassar, L. (2007) ‘Transnational Families and the Provision of Moral and Emotional Support: The Relationship between Truth and Distance’ Identities 14(4).
Lange, C., Kamalkhani, Z. & Baldassar, L. (2007) ‘Afghan Hazara Refugees in Australia: Constructing Australian Citizens’, Social Identities 13(1):31-50.
Baldassar, L., Wilding, R. & Baldock, C., (2007) 'Long-distance care-giving, transnational families and the provision of aged care', in I. Paoletti (ed.) Family Caregiving for Older Disabled, Nova Science, New York, Chapter 10.
Skrbis, Z., Baldassar, L., & Poynting, S. (2007) ‘Social sciences and the question of generations’ in Negotiating Belonging: Migration and Generations, Special Issue of Journal of Intercultural Studies. Vol 28, Issue 2.
Baldassar, L. (2006) ‘Migration monuments in Italy and Australia: contesting histories and transforming identities’, in Harney, N. & Baldassar , L. (Eds) Special Issue 'Italians Share the Neighbourhood', Journal of Modern Italy, Vol 11, No 1, pp43-62.
Baldassar, L. (2005) “Italians in Australia”. In Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, & Ian Skoggard (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World (pp. 850-864). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Cabassi, J., & Baldassr, L. (2005) “Dal’amata montagna to the Garden of Eden” in J. Blagg (Eds) The Child is Wise: An anthology of childhood writing. Fremantle Arts Press.
Baldassar, L. (2004) ‘Italians in Western Australia: from dirty ding to multicultural mate’ In Wilding, R. & Tilbury, F., (eds) A Changing People: Diverse Contributions to the State of Western Australia. OMI, Perth.
Robert S McKelvery, David L Sang, Loretta B Baldassar, Lisa Davies, Neil Cutler, (2002) “The prevalence rate of psychiatric disorders among Vietnamese children and adolescents” The Medical Journal of Australia.
Baldassar, L., & Trigger, D. (2001) ‘Australia’ In Melvin Ember & Carol R. Ember (Eds) Countries and Their Cultures. Macmillan Library Reference. Vol 1, pp. 112-126.
Baldassar, L. (2001) ‘Tornare al Paese: territorio e identità nel processo migratorio’ Altre Italie 23:1-11.
Baldassar, L. (2000) "Gender, ethnicity and transnational citizenship: Italian-Australian experiences" In Lange, C. (ed.) Being Australian Women: Belonging, Citizenship and Identity. Studies in West Australian History. University of Western Australia. No. 21:13-31.
Baldassar, L. (1999) 'The Road Home" Meanjin Wide Open Road 3:42-59
Baldassar, L. (1999) "Marias and Marriage - Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality among Italo-Australian Youth in Perth" The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology. Vol 35 No. 1.
Baldassar, L. (1998) "The Return Visit as Pilgrimage: Secular Redemption and Cultural Renewal in the Migration Process" in Richards, E. & Templeton, J. (eds) The Australian Immigrant In The Twentieth Century: Searching Neglected Sources. Division of Historical Studies and Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
Baldassar, L. (1997) "Home and Away: migration, the return visit and 'transnational' identity" In Ang, I. and Symonds, M. (eds) Communal/Plural 5: Home, Displacment, Belonging. Sydney: Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies, UWS Nepean.
Baldassar, L. & Baldock, C. (1999) "Linking Migration and Family Studies: Transnational Migrants and the Care of Ageing Parents", In Agozino, B. (eds.) Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Migration Research. Ashage, Aldershot, UK.
Baldassar, L., Baldock, C. & Lange, C. (1999) "Immigration and Transnational Care-Giving: Public Policies and their Impact on Migrants' Ability to Care from a Distance" in M. Collis, L. Munro & S. Russell (eds) Challenges for a New Millennium. TASA conference proceedings. Melbourne.
Baldassar, L. & Skrbis, Z. (1998) "Second Generation and the Transmission of Culture. "In Alexander et.al. (eds) Refashioning Sociology: Responses to a New World Order. Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology.
Baldassar, L. (2000) 'Gender, Ethnicity and Transnational Citizenship: Italian Australian experiences', in Cheryl Lange (ed.), 'Being Australian Women: Belonging, Citizenship and Identity', Studies in Western Australian History, No. 21.
http://www.anthropology.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/127188/Baldassar_in_Lange.pdf
Baldassar, L., Baldock, C., & Wilding, R. (2007) Families Caring Across Borders: Migration, Aging and Transnational Caregiving. London: Palgrave MacMillan.
Baldassar, L. & Pesman, R. (2005) From Paesani to Global Italians: Veneto Migrants in Australia. Crawley, University of Western Australia Press. [Italian translation published (2004) I Veneti in Australia: sfide di storia contemporanea. Padua: ANEA].
Baldassar, L. (2001) Visits Home: migration experiences between Italy and Australia. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press (winner NSW Premier's Literary Award, Community Relations Section)
Chapters and journal articles:
Baldassar, L. (2007) 'Transnational Families and aged care: the mobility of care and the migrancy of ageing', Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 33 (2):275-297.
Baldassar, L. (2007) ‘Transnational Families and the Provision of Moral and Emotional Support: The Relationship between Truth and Distance’ Identities 14(4).
Lange, C., Kamalkhani, Z. & Baldassar, L. (2007) ‘Afghan Hazara Refugees in Australia: Constructing Australian Citizens’, Social Identities 13(1):31-50.
Baldassar, L., Wilding, R. & Baldock, C., (2007) 'Long-distance care-giving, transnational families and the provision of aged care', in I. Paoletti (ed.) Family Caregiving for Older Disabled, Nova Science, New York, Chapter 10.
Skrbis, Z., Baldassar, L., & Poynting, S. (2007) ‘Social sciences and the question of generations’ in Negotiating Belonging: Migration and Generations, Special Issue of Journal of Intercultural Studies. Vol 28, Issue 2.
Baldassar, L. (2006) ‘Migration monuments in Italy and Australia: contesting histories and transforming identities’, in Harney, N. & Baldassar , L. (Eds) Special Issue 'Italians Share the Neighbourhood', Journal of Modern Italy, Vol 11, No 1, pp43-62.
Baldassar, L. (2005) “Italians in Australia”. In Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, & Ian Skoggard (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World (pp. 850-864). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Cabassi, J., & Baldassr, L. (2005) “Dal’amata montagna to the Garden of Eden” in J. Blagg (Eds) The Child is Wise: An anthology of childhood writing. Fremantle Arts Press.
Baldassar, L. (2004) ‘Italians in Western Australia: from dirty ding to multicultural mate’ In Wilding, R. & Tilbury, F., (eds) A Changing People: Diverse Contributions to the State of Western Australia. OMI, Perth.
Robert S McKelvery, David L Sang, Loretta B Baldassar, Lisa Davies, Neil Cutler, (2002) “The prevalence rate of psychiatric disorders among Vietnamese children and adolescents” The Medical Journal of Australia.
Baldassar, L., & Trigger, D. (2001) ‘Australia’ In Melvin Ember & Carol R. Ember (Eds) Countries and Their Cultures. Macmillan Library Reference. Vol 1, pp. 112-126.
Baldassar, L. (2001) ‘Tornare al Paese: territorio e identità nel processo migratorio’ Altre Italie 23:1-11.
Baldassar, L. (2000) "Gender, ethnicity and transnational citizenship: Italian-Australian experiences" In Lange, C. (ed.) Being Australian Women: Belonging, Citizenship and Identity. Studies in West Australian History. University of Western Australia. No. 21:13-31.
Baldassar, L. (1999) 'The Road Home" Meanjin Wide Open Road 3:42-59
Baldassar, L. (1999) "Marias and Marriage - Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality among Italo-Australian Youth in Perth" The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology. Vol 35 No. 1.
Baldassar, L. (1998) "The Return Visit as Pilgrimage: Secular Redemption and Cultural Renewal in the Migration Process" in Richards, E. & Templeton, J. (eds) The Australian Immigrant In The Twentieth Century: Searching Neglected Sources. Division of Historical Studies and Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
Baldassar, L. (1997) "Home and Away: migration, the return visit and 'transnational' identity" In Ang, I. and Symonds, M. (eds) Communal/Plural 5: Home, Displacment, Belonging. Sydney: Research Centre in Intercommunal Studies, UWS Nepean.
Baldassar, L. & Baldock, C. (1999) "Linking Migration and Family Studies: Transnational Migrants and the Care of Ageing Parents", In Agozino, B. (eds.) Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Migration Research. Ashage, Aldershot, UK.
Baldassar, L., Baldock, C. & Lange, C. (1999) "Immigration and Transnational Care-Giving: Public Policies and their Impact on Migrants' Ability to Care from a Distance" in M. Collis, L. Munro & S. Russell (eds) Challenges for a New Millennium. TASA conference proceedings. Melbourne.
Baldassar, L. & Skrbis, Z. (1998) "Second Generation and the Transmission of Culture. "In Alexander et.al. (eds) Refashioning Sociology: Responses to a New World Order. Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology.
Baldassar, L. (2000) 'Gender, Ethnicity and Transnational Citizenship: Italian Australian experiences', in Cheryl Lange (ed.), 'Being Australian Women: Belonging, Citizenship and Identity', Studies in Western Australian History, No. 21.
http://www.anthropology.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/127188/Baldassar_in_Lange.pdf
Future research
My main area of research is in migration studies, particularly Italian migration to Australia. I have conducted extensive fieldwork in the Northern Italian region of the Veneto, in Sicily and in Perth and far north Queensland. Key themes in my research are the phenomenon of the return visit in the migration process and the relationship between place and identity. I also conduct research on so-called 'second generation' migrants in Australia and consider issues of intergenerational conflict and the transmission of culture. My most recent research is an ARC funded project together with Professor Cora Baldock (Sociology, Murdoch University) and Dr Raelene Wilding (La Trobe) that examines the impact of transnational migration on care-giving relations between adult children and their parents. The specific question addressed in the study is the extent to which transnational migrants are able to give care and support to their geographically distant parents as they age. The study examines humanitarian, family reunion and business migrants and draws case study examples from migrants and their families in Singapore, Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland, New Zealand and refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan and their families in Iran. My current research is an ARC Linkage Project on 'Italian Lives' which explores Italian migration to Western Australia (see the Staff Research Page for more details on both these projects). Plans for future research include a project on Ageing and Mobility that examines the ways in which the geographic dispersal of kin and friends, access to travel and communication technologies and diverse living arrangements impact on their ability to maintain informal networks of support.
Funding received
Australia Research Council Linkage, UWA Grant (2004-6) Baldassar, L., Harney, N., Bosworth, R., Iuliano, S,. and Delroy, A. Italians in Western Australia: A cultural history and archive of migrants and migration.
Large Australia Research Council, UWA Grant (2000-2002) Baldassar, L. & Baldock, C. “Transnational Care-giving: Cross cultural aged care practices between Australian immigrants and their parents living abroad”.
Commonwealth Dept of Human Services and Health (1996) Prof R McKelvey, Dr D. Sang, & Dr L Baldassar 'The Mental health service needs of Vietnamese children and adolescents'.
Healthways Grant (1996) Baldassar LV, McKelvey RS, Robinson S, & Riley G. 'Risk Factors for Ineffective Sexual Health Communication Among Medical and Nursing Students'.
Veneto Regional Government, Italy (2000-2001) Baldassar, L. & Pesman, R. “The contribution of Veneto migrants to post-war Australia".
UWA Research Grant 2004 Baldassar and Lange ‘Afghani and Iraqi TPVs and forced repatriation’
UWA, Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty of Arts Strengthening International Collaboration grant 2004 Baldassar, Lange & Khamalkhani
Office of Citizenship and Multicultural Interests (2000-1) Baldassar, L. & Peters, N. "The Citizens' Guide to the History of Cultural Diversity and Settlement in Western Australia: A Sense of Belonging". Including in-kind support from the Northam Army Camp Heritage Association (Inc.) and the Centre for Anthropological Research at the University of Western Australia.
UWA Research Grant (1999) VISITS HOME: Ethnicity, Identity and Place in the Migration Process. A comparative study of north and south Italian-Australian migration.
Murdoch University Research Grant (1999) Baldock, C. & Baldassar, L. “Australian Immigration and transnational caregiving: the impact of migration policies on migrants' ability to care for family in their home country.”
Centre for Community and Cross-Cultural Studies, QUT Research Grant (1997 &1998) Skrbis, Z & Baldassar, L. 'The relationship between self-esteem, ethnic identity and psychological distress in Second Generation Italian, Croatian, Vietnamese and Anglo Immigrants'.
UWA Research Grant (1997) Baldassar, L V & Lange, C. 'The utilisation of child and adolescent mental health services by Vietnamese, Italian and Anglo-Celtic Australia families in Perth'.
Large Australia Research Council, UWA Grant (2000-2002) Baldassar, L. & Baldock, C. “Transnational Care-giving: Cross cultural aged care practices between Australian immigrants and their parents living abroad”.
Commonwealth Dept of Human Services and Health (1996) Prof R McKelvey, Dr D. Sang, & Dr L Baldassar 'The Mental health service needs of Vietnamese children and adolescents'.
Healthways Grant (1996) Baldassar LV, McKelvey RS, Robinson S, & Riley G. 'Risk Factors for Ineffective Sexual Health Communication Among Medical and Nursing Students'.
Veneto Regional Government, Italy (2000-2001) Baldassar, L. & Pesman, R. “The contribution of Veneto migrants to post-war Australia".
UWA Research Grant 2004 Baldassar and Lange ‘Afghani and Iraqi TPVs and forced repatriation’
UWA, Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty of Arts Strengthening International Collaboration grant 2004 Baldassar, Lange & Khamalkhani
Office of Citizenship and Multicultural Interests (2000-1) Baldassar, L. & Peters, N. "The Citizens' Guide to the History of Cultural Diversity and Settlement in Western Australia: A Sense of Belonging". Including in-kind support from the Northam Army Camp Heritage Association (Inc.) and the Centre for Anthropological Research at the University of Western Australia.
UWA Research Grant (1999) VISITS HOME: Ethnicity, Identity and Place in the Migration Process. A comparative study of north and south Italian-Australian migration.
Murdoch University Research Grant (1999) Baldock, C. & Baldassar, L. “Australian Immigration and transnational caregiving: the impact of migration policies on migrants' ability to care for family in their home country.”
Centre for Community and Cross-Cultural Studies, QUT Research Grant (1997 &1998) Skrbis, Z & Baldassar, L. 'The relationship between self-esteem, ethnic identity and psychological distress in Second Generation Italian, Croatian, Vietnamese and Anglo Immigrants'.
UWA Research Grant (1997) Baldassar, L V & Lange, C. 'The utilisation of child and adolescent mental health services by Vietnamese, Italian and Anglo-Celtic Australia families in Perth'.
Languages
Italian
Current external positions
Chair, Australasian Centre for Italian Studies
Chair, Cassamarca Lectureships Committee
Chair, Cassamarca Lectureships Committee
Useful links
Loretta Baldassar is also ocassional Chair and Co-founder of the W.A. Migration Research Network: http://www.multicultural.online.wa.gov.au/mrnwa/ of which the website provides user-friendly access to the migration research database.
Research profile
