Affiliation

Visiting Researcher, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Faculty of Law (McGill University)

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.

Contact information

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

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Selected publications

Cancian, Sonia. “’My Dear, How Different Life is Here in America…’ A Young Italian Woman's Impressions on Life in Postwar Montreal,” 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. “From Montreal and Venice with Love: Migrant Letters and Romantic Intimacy in Italian Migration to Postwar Canada,” in Sisters or Strangers?: 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. “Tutti a Tavola! Feeding the Family in Two Generations of Italian Immigrant Households in Montreal,” 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. « Studies in Immigration and Culture,” 2010, 192 pages.

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

Cancian, Sonia. “Intersecting Labour and Social Networks across Cities and Borders,” Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies, vol. 44, n° 166, printemps, 2007, p. 313-326.

Cancian, Sonia and Bruno Ramirez. “Post-Immigration ‘Italo-Canada’: New Perspectives on its past, present and future,” Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies, vol. 44, n° 166, printemps, 2007, p. 259-272.

Cancian, Sonia and Bruno Ramirez. “Gli Italo‐Canadesi in esposizione: Intervista a Mauro Peressini, Curatore della mostra Presenza—A New Look at Italian-Canadian Heritage,” Studi Emigrazione/Migration Studies, vol. 44, n° 166, printemps, 2007, p. 389-394.

Recent Publications

The book, Migrant Emotions: Inclusion and Exclusion in Transnational Spaces edited by Sonia Cancian, Peter Leese, Soňa Mikulová, 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, McGill-Queen’s University Press, coll. “McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History,” 2021, 336 pages.

Cancian, Sonia. “Introduction: Love in the Midst of Migration” in With Your Words in My Hands: The Letters of Antonietta Petris and Loris Palma, Sonia Cancian (ed.), Montreal-Kingston, McGill-Queen’s University Press, coll. “McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History,” 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. “Studies of World Migrations,” 2021, 296 pages.

Borges, Marcelo J., Cancian, Sonia and Linda Reeder. “Introduction” in Emotional Landscapes: Love, Gender, and Migration Marcelo J. Borges, Sonia Cancian and Linda Reeder (eds.), Champaign, University of Illinois Press, coll. “Studies of World Migrations,” 2021, p. 1-18.

Cancian, Sonia. “Love at the Threshold of War and Migration: A War Orphan’s Story” in Emotional Landscapes: Love, Gender, and Migration Marcelo J. Borges, Sonia Cancian and Linda Reeder (eds.), Champaign, University of Illinois Press, coll. “Studies of World Migrations,” 2021, p. 163-183.