Migrations and History of education in a transnational view between Italy and Brazil in 19th and 20th centuries

This collection of papers has its origins back in a meeting that took place in Caxias do Sul (Brazil), on September 11th and 12th, 2018, with scholars of Brazilian and Italian universities interested in migration and history of education. The event was promoted and organized by the Research Group on History of Education, Immigration and Memory (GRUPHEIM) of the University of Caxias do Sul (UCS) (Brazil) and the Center for Research and Documentation on the History of Educational Institutions, School Books and Children’s Literature (CeSIS) of the Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education of the University of Molise (Italy). Different research groups aimed to analyze migrants, migration and human mobility within History of Education and specially to deepen studies about educational initiatives for (e/im)migrants and/or their children in Brazil, carried out by religious, State and civil society institutions, during the 19th and 20th centuries. Educational and schooling processes; educational models and tools for circulation of knowledge; teaching and learning practices in culturally distinguished spaces and times; and practices for promotion of ethnical and cultural identity related to an Italian character are part of a new research field. In a transnational view, Italian and Brazilian scholars, with their participation and methodological approaches, have opened new perspectives of investigation in the field of History of Education.