When social provision became a bordering practice : the association 'assistance to redeemed Italy' and children’s welfare in Italy’s Northeastern borderlands, 1919-1939
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Special issue of Childhood, 2025, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 20-37
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DOWNS, Laura Lee, When social provision became a bordering practice : the association ‘assistance to redeemed Italy’ and children’s welfare in Italy’s Northeastern borderlands, 1919-1939, Special issue of Childhood, 2025, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 20-37, [SOCIOBORD] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77835
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This article axplores children's welfare in Italy's northeastern borderlands after WWI. Using the case of a semi-public aid association “Assistenza all'Italia Redenta” (Assistance to Redeemed Italy), the author examines children's welfare before and after the installation of the fascist regime. She focuses in particular on preschools as a vital source of sociomedical and educational assistance to children in this mutlilingual and multiethnic region. But this assistance came with a quid pro quo, for children recieved it on condition that they learn the Italian language. The article thus explores how social welfare may be instrumentalized for nationalist purposes in borderland regions marked by cultural and national diversity.
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Published online: 15 November 2024
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This research was supported by the project SOCIOBORD: 'Social Politics in European Borderlands. A Comparative and Transnational Study, 1870s-1990s' funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the grant agreement 882549.