Culture
Culture Report

Good migrations - Rome

Preface

For most of the last century, Italy's population flowed outwards. But as the country grew richer, the outside began to trickle in, from Eastern Europe, North Africa and Asia. Today, the country's roughly three million immigrants are growing into their second generation. For the first time its schools are graduating students who sound Italian, feel Italian and are Italian, but trace their roots back to other countries, forcing Italians to ask what exactly does it mean to be Italian?

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Credits

Writer: Stephan Faris



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