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| grandfather Candido (first from right) arrives by ship in Argentina. |
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| son Andrew and grandson Tomas come back by train in Italy. |
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Graciela Noemi Papaianni
Argentina. Patagonia
Migration is a historical theme that has been cause for concern and analysis. Whenever emerge different nuances and other issues that remained hidden. At the time of our grandparents (early 1900) the reason was seen in the wars that have led people to migrate without much choice. Today, even the grandchildren of those people migrate back to the reasons are different, perhaps more associated with looking for new opportunities related to growth as people. But in either case, the psychological processes are the same as the emigrant, but when it comes to matters of survival, migration is more painful, because it is almost an expulsion from the place of origin, abandonment, because you are forced by circumstances to drive them out of something so dear as the roots. This coincides in both cases is the abandonment of their habits to integrate with a new way of life. This process is called pain and generates the melancholy of the emigrant's, the longing for the land, family, place of origin, language, friends, familiar smells, the landscape, climate, culture, customs of the place of origin. In summary, this attitude is social as if it gave them a new life opportunities, a chance to improve themselves, is the common social immigrant attitude that tends to retain certain common lines. This pain implies a deep crisis, a change, a renewal, a ripening and a learning constant. One of the key issues in this internal process, as outlined Harfuch, is that "the person is able to integrate what you bring as your own personal baggage, and how there again in the place of his choice, and so prepare their own new living space and restructure his personality to the new situation. " In the last few years have seen a wave of migration carried out by the grandchildren of immigrants of the last century was that young people who brought their strength in the host country, the same force that they also bring their grandchildren who are looking for something that want to find in those lands. Is neither more nor less than a return to the old, the origins, in order to learn something about the identity lost, to understand where we came from and the possibility that in their direction can meet yourself in this world and the best way to trace that lies ahead. Hence the need for the migrant to retain their own customs, so as to soothe the pain that results in loss, pain ... that transmitted to their children what they feel when they return to her roots: "had already passed this way steassa, had experienced these sounds, these smells of food etc, etc. But today, when their grandchildren are to return to their land, the country of origin of their grandparents, which includes them too, because many they also have citizenship for adoption and they encounter many difficulties and are told that there is no place. Then these grandchildren will ask: "How is it that a hundred years ago, my grandfather, who received him with open arms as if his country? And now his own country which had expelled him for not giving him the minimum amount of work that was necessary for survival and dignity, does not allow them to return?
Graciela Noemi Papaianni
Argentina. Patagonia
January 16, 2011
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Migration is a historical theme that has been cause for concern and analysis. Whenever emerge different nuances and other issues that remained hidden. At the time of our grandparents (early 1900) the reason was seen in the wars that have led people to migrate without much choice. Today, even the grandchildren of those people migrate back to the reasons are different, perhaps more associated with looking for new opportunities related to growth as people. But in either case, the psychological processes are the same as the emigrant, but when it comes to matters of survival, migration is more painful, because it is almost an expulsion from the place of origin, abandonment, because you are forced by circumstances to drive them out of something so dear as the roots. This coincides in both cases is the abandonment of their habits to integrate with a new way of life. This process is called pain and generates the melancholy of the emigrant's, the longing for the land, family, place of origin, language, friends, familiar smells, the landscape, climate, culture, customs of the place of origin. In summary, this attitude is social as if it gave them a new life opportunities, a chance to improve themselves, is the common social immigrant attitude that tends to retain certain common lines. This pain implies a deep crisis, a change, a renewal, a ripening and a learning constant. One of the key issues in this internal process, as outlined Harfuch, is that "the person is able to integrate what you bring as your own personal baggage, and how there again in the place of his choice, and so prepare their own new living space and restructure his personality to the new situation. " In the last few years have seen a wave of migration carried out by the grandchildren of immigrants of the last century was that young people who brought their strength in the host country, the same force that they also bring their grandchildren who are looking for something that want to find in those lands. Is neither more nor less than a return to the old, the origins, in order to learn something about the identity lost, to understand where we came from and the possibility that in their direction can meet yourself in this world and the best way to trace that lies ahead. Hence the need for the migrant to retain their own customs, so as to soothe the pain that results in loss, pain ... that transmitted to their children what they feel when they return to her roots: "had already passed this way steassa, had experienced these sounds, these smells of food etc, etc. But today, when their grandchildren are to return to their land, the country of origin of their grandparents, which includes them too, because many they also have citizenship for adoption and they encounter many difficulties and are told that there is no place. Then these grandchildren will ask: "How is it that a hundred years ago, my grandfather, who received him with open arms as if his country? And now his own country which had expelled him for not giving him the minimum amount of work that was necessary for survival and dignity, does not allow them to return?
I also wonder what my grandparents would say, if they lived today, in this situation ...... most likely to feel pain and disappointment.
(translation by Mark Poltorak)
Good Life!
maestrocastello
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