Books on Sicily and Sicilian
immigrants
Leman, J. (1987). From Challenging Culture to Challenged Culture. The Sicilian code and the socio-cultural praxis of Sicilian immigrants in Belgium. Leuven, University Press, 184 p.
Abstract: The first Part of the book presents the socio-cultural code in Sicily as observed in the Province of Caltanissetta. The second Part is based on several years of fieldwork among Sicilians from the Province of Caltanissetta: urban Brussels and semi-rural Genk in the Province of Limburg in Belgium. The various forms of collective praxis are dealt with separately. The author insists that the immigrants move as subjects: they are not passive elements, not just pawns, predestined by their circumstances or by one or another phase of the immigration history.