Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Framing Charity and Migration; Chapter 1 A Civilized Journey; Part II Forging Charitable Communities; Chapter 2 Intimate Lives and the Art of Belonging; Chapter 3 Food, Community and Incorporation Work; Chapter 4 Ethical Engagement; Part III The Moral Work of Charity; Chapter 5 'Getting the Work Done', or an Ethos of Disinterested Equality; Chapter 6 Compassion and Empathy without Understanding; Chapter 7 Accountability, Cynicism and Hope; Epilogue Charity, Reflexivity, Belonging; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Since the time of the Grand Tour, the Italian region of Tuscany has sustained a highly visible American and Anglo migrant community. Today American women continue to migrate there, many in order to marry Italian men. Confronted with experiences of social exclusion, unfamiliar family relations, and new cultural terrain, many women struggle to build local lives. In the first ethnographic monograph of Americans in Italy, Catherine Trundle argues that charity and philanthropy are the central means by which many American women negotiate a sense of migrant belonging in Italy. This book traces women