--I’m
born in San
Giovanni in Fiore.
I live and lived a good part of my life in this
city.
--However,
eighteen years of my life passed in other places; I was also an emigrant. For short periods,
other times long ones.
--I’ve
assisted at the disintegration of the local culture, at the urbanistic and territorial disaster
consequent to the phenomenon of the mass emigration
of our population, and, especially, at
the absolute lack of rational programming of the
resources by the succeeding Municipal Authorities
in the last four decades.
--The
description of such phenomenon can provide an
example of which serious problems are consequent
to the mass emigration, of the difficulties
inherent in the immigration phenomenaand of cultural
acceptance of the migratory populations by the
local population, in the general
process of today’s globalization.
--At
the beginning of the last century a migratory
current of the Florensis started towards the foreign
countries which became like a river in flood since
the half of the Sixties. The
thousand of billions of Lire’s of the wages
of the beyond eight thousand Florensis are transformed
in reinforced concrete in a little more than ten
years. A collective madness braked
out: Dr. Salvatore INGLESE, Ethno-Psychiatrist,
in that time Director for many years of the local
seat of the Mental Health Centre, wrote an essay
where he analyzed this type of social psychopathology:
--[...] the relative richness deriving from the
wage-job gained by the emigrants was obstinate
to be petrified in deserted and abusive dwellings
that caused a serious imbalance in the rational
management of the territory. The emigration hasn’t
determined "in loco” a new development,
the web of the productive structures or trading
remained atrophic or however slowed down. But
the concreteness of the wages revealed also the
necessity to contrast, turning upside down in
its contrary the anguish of the consequent vanishing
by the forced exodus. In this territory, more
the emigration is suffered like uprooting or constrained
nomadism, more new domestic foundations are demarcated. The more one is forced to
the movement, the more one digs in the cliff and
a permanent skeletal identity rises. [...]
--In
the Florense population don’t exist any
resignation to the exodus, to the MASS
EMIGRATION, nor acceptance of the strategy
of operated survival. The
exile from the catharsis of the reality is revealed
like suspension of the drama in the vacuum of
empty buildings.
--The
choice of investment of the own savings, gained
with sweats and sacrifices, dictated by emotive
motivations and not strategically rational, is individually and socially
a complete failure; in any manner the Public
Administrations and the Technical Office didn’t
brake this phenomenon, in the contrary,
with serious responsibilities and disastrous consequences
on the territory, they regulated and addressed
it typologically carrying it to the wild construction
of houses all equal, all faulty, all useless and
to the building of a town that is not apt for
living, closed, with any possibility of breathing, made up by empty buildings in great part
not ended, however uninhabited, with
any aesthetic, functional, economic and social
value.
--The
short description of the drama, of the
historical failure, in terms of development on
the territory of belongings, of the individual
and collective sacrifices of a whole migrating
population, that Florense, invite to reflect
on the need, essential nowadays in times of globalization,
of migrations on world-wide scale of entire populations
and ethnos groups, to resolve
the sense of vacuum, loneliness, diversity, of
non belongings, that the migratory process provokes
in a human being forced to abandon his
land and his culture; existential anguish
that can carry and carries to deviations of behaviours
which, in any case, are neither strategic nor
rational.
--We
of emigrati.it are convinced that the research and the
valorisation of the roots, common to the various
Cultures, can contribute to render the
migratory experience of each individual, like
also of a social group or of an entire population,
less dramatic.
--We
work on the research and the valorisation of the
heritage of the cultural roots, starting from Caccuri,
from San
Giovanni in Fiore towards the world, to
the common roots of every man,
to the higher values of the hospitality and the
fraternity between the peoples. emigrati.it is born in San
Giovanni in Fiore * ‘because this town’ has endured
in a way more serious than others the problems
due to the mass emigration of its population,
in honour of the sacrifices of our fathers and
in order to build a surer future to our sons,
to the children of today, those of tomorrow...
--Thinking
to the children, to how many experiences
they will have to live in order to be transformed
in the men of the future, in order to acquire
knowledge, in order to become and to be, as humanist
and impassioned of Cultural Anthropology I repeat
myself: that a human being acquires knowledge
and culture through a complex process, known precisely
as enculturation,
which includes the instruction, the imitation
and the inference from the others behaviour; knowledge
and personal culture proceed from the individual
interaction with such social process, today in
continuous transformation and evolution like the
same individual; that
the individual knowledge belongs to a cognitive
process pertaining all humanity, exists
and have a meaning only because it’s the
expressive relation of an individual respect a
social group in a historical succession and transmission
of the Culture.
--Every
human being is thus unique and each Culture is
precious; all the Cultures offer various
and original fields of investigations of the reality.
The preciosity of the cultural diversities is,
for us of emigrati.it, a treasure to be kept carefully as the base
for any human development.
--More
I travel, grow, work, become cosmopolitan, more
I tie to my origins, trusting in the
idea that the development of the Man consists
in the diversification of the Cultures, in
its exchange in a pacific cohabitation, and not
in their flatting imposed
with hunger and war.
--For an analysis of the Florense
migratoring experience, 2003
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