This paper has two main aims: the first to outline the trend of different waves which led foreign students in Italy, drawing the map of their country home, following their curricula in Italian universities and faculties, arguing the different reasons for which they were attracted in Italy, in substance like in the push/pull scheme used by historians of Great Emigration. The second to focus the different kinds of official sources and archives concerning this subject and to presents the bibliography available. All this documentation helps us to reconstruct a dynamic deeply contradictory: if liberal Italy opened university’s doors to foreign students and try to emulate the most celebrated German, British and French institutions of high learning, if fascism first used facilities and scholarships as ways to extend her political influence abroad, ten years later this hospital attitude and promotion of cultural exchange was converted in a system od increasing political control, culminated in selective, but conspicuous expulsions from universities in 1938-1939.

Italian Universities and foreign Students (1900-1939).

SIGNORI, ELISA
2005-01-01

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This paper has two main aims: the first to outline the trend of different waves which led foreign students in Italy, drawing the map of their country home, following their curricula in Italian universities and faculties, arguing the different reasons for which they were attracted in Italy, in substance like in the push/pull scheme used by historians of Great Emigration. The second to focus the different kinds of official sources and archives concerning this subject and to presents the bibliography available. All this documentation helps us to reconstruct a dynamic deeply contradictory: if liberal Italy opened university’s doors to foreign students and try to emulate the most celebrated German, British and French institutions of high learning, if fascism first used facilities and scholarships as ways to extend her political influence abroad, ten years later this hospital attitude and promotion of cultural exchange was converted in a system od increasing political control, culminated in selective, but conspicuous expulsions from universities in 1938-1939.
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