Historians of Italian migration have long neglected sport in their studies, while historians of sport have focused on the relationship between the spread of sport throughout the world and emigration in the context of British imperialism. Yet Italians have played a part in this process. Studies now exist on sport among Italian communities in North and South America, Australia and Europe. While sport contributes to maintaining transnational ties and a sense of Italianness, it is also a way of agency, adjustment and a powerful vector of integration in host societies. Studying Italian emigration through sport once again raises the question of multiple loyalties and the fluidity of identities over several generations.

Lo sport nella storiografia della migrazione italiana. Breve panoramica