Labour and identity in documentary web series on new Italian emigrants

This chapter aims to confront the data that emerge from economic and sociological studies on new emigration from Italy with the stories told by documentary web series on Italians abroad which start to be produced around 2013-2014. The web series format allows to frame these narrations as “pseudo-authentic” and to reflect on life and labour in a “postmigratory” perspective. The master narrative of brain drain as a “gain” for the “greater Italy”, packed in the video-interview format of the government-sponsored web series "Cartoline dall’Altra Italia", has recently been abandoned for new formats of “on the road” stories which narrate new mobilities questioning homeland-centred identities. The format which comes most close to the postmigrant alternative is Johanne Affricot’s web series "The Expats" on black Italian creatives abroad.