Dr Giancarlo Chiro

Benvenuti al mio sito personale! (Welcome to my home page). I am the program director for the Associate Degree and Graduate Diploma in Languages and Culture Studies. My teaching and research areas cover Italian Studies, ethnic and intercultural studies, cultural identity, language maintenance, migration and multiculturlism.

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• Italian language, culture and society
• Ethnic and intercultural studies
• Cultural identity and language maintenance
• Globalization, Immigration and Multiculturalism

I am a member of a number of academic and research centres such as the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures Education at UniSA, the Migration, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism research group of the Australian Sociological Association, the Language and Society research panel of the International Institute of Sociology and the Culture, Knowledge and Communication research committee of the International Sociology Association.

B.A. (Hons) Flinders University

Grad. Dip Ed (Adelaide University)

Ph. D (Adelaide University)

• Cultural identity and language maintenance among minority groups in ethnically plural societies
• Italian culture and society
• Ethnicity, immigration and multiculturalism

Chiro, G. and Daou, D. (2008) Culture Maintenance and Identity among Members of the Druze Community in South Australia. Reimagining Sociology TASA Conference - December 5 – 8, 2008

Chiro, G. (2007) Cultural Values, Identity and Language Maintenance in Humanistic Sociological Perspective. Keynote address to the Third Symposium On Language Policy, Diversity And Welfare, Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico, 27–29 June 2007.

Chiro, G and Vadura, K. (2007) Whither European Integration? The Impact of Multicultural Identities in a Globalising Context. Paper delivered at the New Europe, New Governance, New Worlds? Conference, Monash University European and EU Centre, 12–14 April 2007.

Chiro, G. (2007) European Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Multicultural Australia? Paper presented to the Australasian Political Studies Association, Monash University, 24–26 September 2007.

Chiro, G. (2005) Cultura economica e livello sociale degli italiani d’Australia. S.Battente (ed) Da emigranti ad imprenditori: gli italiani all'estero nel secondo dopoguerra, in Memoria e ricerca, XIII, n.18, Franco Angeli, Milano.

Chiro, G. (2004) Language, Core Values and Cultural Identity Among First Generation Italians in South Australia. In D. O’Connor (ed), Memories and Identities: Proceedings of the Second Conference on the Impact of Italians in South Australia. Australian Humanities Press.

Chiro, G. (2003) Cultural maintenance and ethnic identity: a model of cultural types. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 3 (2), 2 – 19.

Chiro, G. C. and Smolicz, J. J. (2002) Italian family values and ethnic identity in Australian Schools.Educational Practice and Theory, 24(2): 37–51.

Chiro, G. C. and Smolicz, J. J.(1999). Evaluations of language and social systems by a group of tertiary students of Italian ancestry in Australia. Altreitalie, vol. 18.

Chiro, G. C. and Smolicz, J. J.(1997). The Activation and Evaluation of Italian Language and Culture among Tertiary Students of Italian Ancestry in Australia. In R. Watts & J.J. Smolicz (eds.) Cultural Democracy and Ethnic Pluralism: Multicultural and Multilingual Policies in Education, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 213-242.

Chiro, G. C. and Smolicz, J. J.(1994). Has the Language Time-Clock Run Down for Italian in Australia? A Study of Tertiary Students of Italian Ancestry. In N. Bivona (ed.) Proceedings of the International Conference Italian Towards 2000, Victoria University of Technology.

Chiro, G. C. and Smolicz, J. J. (1993). Is Italian Language a Core Value of Italian Culture in Australia? A Study of Second Generation Italian-Australians. Studi emigrazione, 110: 311-343.

Chiro, G. C. and Smolicz, J. J. (1990). La conservazione e l'erosione della lingua italiana tra giovani con background linguistico veneto. In G. Padoan (ed.) Presenza, Cultura, Lingua e Tradizioni dei Veneti nel Mondo. Venice: Giunta Regionale del Veneto, 189-214.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Language, Italian History and Literature

• Ethnicity, Immigration and Multiculturalism
• Cultural identity and language maintenance