With this volume, the group of professors and scholars trained around the FIRB Project of Excellence (Loss, maintenance and recovery of linguistic and cultural space in II and III generation of Italian emigrants in the world: Language, languages, identity), he intended to leave a trace of the commitment made in the course by proposing an organic series of contributions reflecting the different cultural and interdisciplinary sensitivities and competences that have characterized the formative action. It has emerged an articulated and stimulating picture on the new forms that assumes the italianness in the world and its ability to transmit positivity and enrich the traditional cultural instance with the values of entrepreneurship and dual national membership and Local.