Tag: Migrants

For a better life: the migrant experience

Categories About me, Creative writing, Italy, Life in Sicily, Opinion piece, Reflection piece, Sicily and Sicilianess, Travel Memoir, Writing

The Sicily of Sicilian migrants exists only in their memories like the faded dreams of a past youth, vivid in the mind's eye, too idealised to be true. Memories distort the events of everyday life as they are created by the senses and are carved into the human mind by emotions. We remember many things…

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Migrants, immigrants and refugees

Categories Culture Shock, Expat experiences, Italy, Life in Sicily, Sicily, Travel Sicily

  Observing the news of the recent tragedy off the coast of Sicily which saw more than 300 people drowned and later other boat loads rescued, I feel obliged to clarify certain terminology which is being misused by journalists. It may seem a bit pedantic in the face of the loss of life but it’s…

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