Affiliation

Visiting Researcher, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Faculty of Law (成人VR视频)

Research interests

History of immigration, correspondence, life stories, war memory and immigration, Italian history in Montreal, Italy, Canada, Europe, 20th-21st century, history of emotions, transnational history, gender and society.

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Contact information

> sonia.cancian [at] mail.mcgill.ca (E-mail)

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Selected publications

Cancian, Sonia. 鈥溾�橫y Dear, How Different Life is Here in America鈥︹�� A Young Italian Woman's Impressions on Life in Postwar Montreal,鈥� in Engaging with Diversity. Multidisciplinary Reflections on Plurality in Quebec, Stephan Gervais, Raffaele Iacovino et Mary Anne Poutanen (eds.). Bruxelles, Peter Lang, 2018, p. 439-456.

Cancian, Sonia. 鈥淔rom Montreal and Venice with Love: Migrant Letters and Romantic Intimacy in Italian Migration to Postwar Canada,鈥� in Sisters or Strangers?:听Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History, Second Edition, Franca Iacovetta and Marlene Epp (dir.), Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2016, p. 191-200.

Cancian, Sonia. 鈥淭utti a Tavola! Feeding the Family in Two Generations of Italian Immigrant Households in Montreal,鈥� in Edible Histories, Cultural Politics: Towards a Canadian Food History, Marlene Epp, Franca Iacovetta and Valerie Korinek (eds.), Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2012, p. 209-221.

Cancian, Sonia (ed.). Families, Lovers and their Letters: Italian Postwar Migration to Canada. Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Press, coll. 芦 Studies in Immigration and Culture,鈥� 2010, 192 pages.

Cancian, Sonia and Bruno Ramirez, (eds.). Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies, An International Journal of Migration Studies, vol. 44, n掳 166, printemps, 2007.

Cancian, Sonia. 鈥淚ntersecting Labour and Social Networks across Cities and Borders,鈥� Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies, vol. 44, n掳 166, printemps, 2007, p. 313-326.

Cancian, Sonia and Bruno Ramirez. 鈥淧ost-Immigration 鈥業talo-Canada鈥�: New Perspectives on its past, present and future,鈥� Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies, vol. 44, n掳 166, printemps, 2007, p. 259-272.

Cancian, Sonia and Bruno Ramirez. 鈥淕li Italo鈥怌anadesi in esposizione: Intervista a Mauro Peressini, Curatore della mostra Presenza鈥擜 New Look at Italian-Canadian Heritage,鈥� Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies, vol. 44, n掳 166, printemps, 2007, p. 389-394.

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Recent Publications

The book, Migrant Emotions: Inclusion and Exclusion in Transnational Spaces edited by Sonia Cancian, Peter Leese, So艌a Mikulov谩, Liverpool University Press (contract), forthcoming in 2023-24.

Cancian, Sonia (ed.). With Your Words in My Hands: The Letters of Antonietta Petris and Loris Palma, Montreal-Kingston, 成人VR视频-Queen鈥檚 University Press, coll. 鈥湷扇薞R视频-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History,鈥� 2021, 336 pages.

Cancian, Sonia. 鈥淚ntroduction: Love in the Midst of Migration鈥� in With Your Words in My Hands: The Letters of Antonietta Petris and Loris Palma, Sonia Cancian (ed.), Montreal-Kingston, 成人VR视频-Queen鈥檚 University Press, coll. 鈥湷扇薞R视频-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History,鈥� 2021, p. 3-62.

Borges, Marcelo J., Sonia Cancian and Linda Reeder (eds.). Emotional Landscapes: Love, Gender, and Migration. Champaign, University of Illinois Press, coll. 鈥淪tudies of World Migrations,鈥� 2021, 296 pages.

Borges, Marcelo J., Cancian, Sonia and Linda Reeder. 鈥淚ntroduction鈥� in Emotional Landscapes: Love, Gender, and Migration Marcelo J. Borges, Sonia Cancian and Linda Reeder (eds.), Champaign, University of Illinois Press, coll. 鈥淪tudies of World Migrations,鈥� 2021, p. 1-18.

Cancian, Sonia. 鈥淟ove at the Threshold of War and Migration: A War Orphan鈥檚 Story鈥� in Emotional Landscapes: Love, Gender, and Migration Marcelo J. Borges, Sonia Cancian and Linda Reeder (eds.), Champaign, University of Illinois Press, coll. 鈥淪tudies of World Migrations,鈥� 2021, p. 163-183.