Finalmente, dopo tanti progetti accantonati e tante promesse non mantenute, apre a Roma nel complesso del Vittoriano il museo nazionale dell’emigrazione, a testimoniare un esodo doloroso durato over a century, 29 million Italians, of whom less than a third returned to his homeland and in some moments, for the macroscopic dimensions of the flow and the inhuman conditions in which it happened, it is configured as a real genocide. Visiting it is important to reflect on the fact, pointed out yesterday by President Napolitano at the opening, that Italy is a country of emigration before immigration. This magmatic phenomenon, marked by countless vicissitudes, has now found a particular place, from the poignant symbolism, where it can be told to new generations, who are invited to know our past to know how to behave properly now that we are divenuti un paese in grado di offrire lavoro e benessere ad altre popolazioni.
Il percorso espositivo si avvale delle più avanzate tecnologie in campo di comunicazione audio visiva e tecnologia virtuale ed è suddiviso in cinque sezioni, che coprono diversi periodi storici dal periodo pre unitario ai nostri giorni.
Le antiche emigrazioni, quando l’Italia era costituita da una miriade di piccoli stati, rappresenta una interessante sorpresa anche per chi ha già letto e studiato l’argomento e le mete erano rappresentate principalmente dalla Francia e dalla Germania.
Dal 1861 al 1915 cominciano i giganteschi esodi verso l’America ed il centro Europa, è l’epoca eroica dell’emigrazione, durante la quale have moved a considerable number of Italians, often accompanied by their families.
is then examined the period between the two world wars, in relation to fascism, colonialism and internal migration, given that the Great Depression of 1929 in the United States were enacted similar legislation.
Then follows the examination of flows in the second post-war economic miracle when provoked, as well as waves of migration to other countries, a momentous population shift from south to north.
Finally, the current reality of the Italian presence abroad, from four million units, characterized by a high qualification: fine brains and entrepreneurs.
This journey into the pain of a people forced out of the country to find the means to survive is accompanied by explanatory charts, photographs, documents, newspapers, posters, videos, historical films, characteristic objects, old postcards, cardboard suitcases and other family heirlooms . In some places you can listen to old songs, and see rare footage of the institute as small as light.
There is also a rich library with over 500 texts sul'emigrazione useful for students and scholars wishing to know more about and a lounge where you can attend a one-hour documentary featuring interviews with famous directors from ten to Salvatores Squitieri by Montaldo and Crialese, which you are interested in the problem interspersed with excerpts from their films.
There's also a section dedicated to those who today are trying their luck and working in Italy with 60 photos remind us of how the drama of migration does not change with time: the tomato pickers in Foggia, or the anonymous cumprà vu, streets and markets of our cities.
most moving images, however, are those referring to the vicissitudes of our ancestors, when the peninsula turned 30,000 brokers in human flesh, who organized these trips overseas in ways that are similar to those of the modern slave traders, using decades-old ships, packed up to twice the capacity and the absence of any garrison sanitary.
are reminded of some forgotten episodes as the sinking in 1891 at the port of Gibraltar in front of the ship "Utopia" with the deaths of 576 passengers all southern or the case of "Matthew Brazzo," which in 1884 was greeted by gunfire in the port of Montevideo, on board because there were some people suffering from cholera. Paradigmatic
that Brazil became the destination of our emigrants after 1888, when slavery was abolished and there was a need for new slaves.
departures in the first decades after the unification took place mainly from the port of Genoa, because the regions were more interested in the phenomenon, in addition to the Veneto, including Piedmont and Lombardy, as if to dispel definitely the stereotypical image of a rich north who had civilized the South. When he broke the Southern question in all its gravity and was tackled by military means, he began the exodus of people from southern and Naples that was started from the infamous vessel full of aching humanity, full of despair and longing, Anxiety redemption and ancient dignity, even if this reality is difficult to be accurately documented years ago by a fire which destroyed the archives of the port of Naples.
In the popular imagination more than the current combination emigrant - South Asia, has almost become an equivalent term, goes back to those painful years and had then a reinforcement when the Second World War has been an exodus of biblical proportions from the south, more and more poor become rich north.
This beautiful museum, which anticipates the celebrations for the Unification of Italy 150, should be cloned and become itinerant, so that all citizens can visit and above all the students in all schools, often with unnecessary exhibitions of contemporary art, while remaining ignorant of this interminable suffering because of our past in parentheses.
ACHILLES OF REASON
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