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Rome \u2013\u00a0 exactly fifty years ago, in 1960, \u201cMilano, Corea\u201d was released by Feltrinelli, a look into the world of immigrants in Milan in the years of the Italian economic miracle by Franco Alasia and Danilo Montaldi with a preface by Danilo Dolci.<\/p>\n
Half a century later, the work is being confirmed in its actuality and political validity through its reissue by Donzelli in a new edition with an introduction by Guido Crainz and a postface by Jeff Quiligotti. Both underline the book\u2019s importance when it comes to the meaning of the enquiry into internal immigration and the workers\u2019 conditions. Franco Alasia, recently deceased, was a Danilo Dolci\u2019s close collaborator for many years, and he was asked by Dolci to collect interviews about the reality of workers\u2019 conditions, from men and women, young or old, all come to Milano from the deep South, still today economically and culturally underdeveloped. Rereading these interviews and going back over this journey into immigration along with Alasia and Montaldi in that Italy suspended between agriculture and industry ,it is impossible not to think of today\u2019s Italy. In half a century, only the features of the protagonists have changed: yesterday they were southern Italian \u201cterroni\u201d, today they are non-EU immigrants, but their destiny stays the same.<\/p>\n
Danilo Dolci wrote in his presentation letter \u201cFranco came to help me in a particularly difficult moment, even though he had a family: I think I owe him my life\u201d. Danilo Montaldi wrote \u201cThe immigrants arrive here in Milan\u2026 They have been arriving every day for years\u2026 The immigrant does not express himself yet, but he can tell his own story , and for this reason all his hope is stranded at the terminal of lines 15, 16, 8 and 28, at the Albergo Popolare, in Corea\u201d. Corea was a large immigrant neighbourhood, the first and often last stop on the painful quest for a better future.<\/p>\n
Today Jeff Quiligotti writes \u201cMilano Corea was a work of great scientific value, but also a very readable book that did not only belong to a circle of experts, but it also was a pamphlet that did not hide its polemical intentions\u201d.<\/p>\n
The 32 interviews collected by Franco Alasia are vivid portraits of men and women that made modern Italy, the Italy that came out of the war and was economically transformed with huge social contradictions.<\/p>\n
Vito, 46, from Veneto<\/p>\n
\u201cI am one of those who left his native land to come here. My place is Cavarzere, in the province of Venice\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Francesco A, 42, from Sardinia<\/p>\n
\u201cI also made the mistake of coming to Milan because I thought that it was the city of goodness, but I just found the same difficulties as everywhere. I\u2019d seen Milan as a fantasy\u2026 In Milan there are people who work, that know all about life, my intention was to get close to those people, but I haven\u2019t found them yet\u201d.<\/p>\n
Pasquale P, 33, Cerignola<\/p>\n
\u201cI have to admit that I wasn\u2019t born unlucky; but as I grew up trouble started in my family. When I was 17 my father died, and my brother didn\u2019t come back from Greece the way he was before. And what\u2019s more I had to think of my mother and my sister, because where I come from it\u2019s like that, women stay inside the home\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Angela O, 51, from Puglia<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat can I say? Do I have to tell you what it\u2019s like for me here? You know, I had horses but then there wasn\u2019t any more work and we sold them and came here to Milan. If men had invested their money in business we wouldn\u2019t all be here; but men from where I come from keep their money for themselves\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Fernanda, 40, from Polesine<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know why I have only been selling myself for three years. I\u2019m from this area, I started here at the Park and I come here every night after 11 pm. It\u2019s a long story, my life is like a novel, I\u2019ve seen all sorts and then there was the flood and we all came to Milan\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
A book with half a century of history behind it that feels like it was written today. To read or to reread, but in any case not to forget. As one doesn\u2019t forget films that tell similar stories of internal immigration in the Italy of the Sixties.<\/p>\n
Milano, Corea could have been a great film.<\/p>\n
Franco Alasia and Danilo Montaldi<\/p>\n
\u201cMilano, Corea\u201d<\/p>\n
Donzelli Editore 2010<\/p>\n
335 pages \u201328 euros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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