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name. She lived until around her 79th year, dying at Kyabram (ref figure 6) in 1898.**
Like doctors Rossetti and Pagnamenta, Severino Guscetti had not come to Australia to
escape poverty and the threat of starvation. Notwithstanding political conflicts which
had prompted his decision to emigrate, he had chosen the Colony of Victoria as his
future home ~ and, like other members of the professional classes, had been able to re­
establish wdth his family the comfortable life-style formerly enjoyed in Ticino. The
Guscettis (like countless Italian-speaking settlers) discovered, however, that financial
security was only one part of the immigrant experience and that it was always
accompanied by painful memories of distant homelands and loved ones. This theme
re-emerges in the case study of the Vanina family which concludes this chapter.
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