Islem is 35 years old and arrived in Italy, in Turin, Italy, in November 2015. Originally from a small country town on the coast of Tunisia, Sidi Alouane, he speaks Arabic (his native language, some dialects of which he also knows), French (which he has been studying since the age of 8, as it is

Lynda has been in Italy for almost 14 years. Her first Italian city was Pisa and since 2017 she has lived in Turin. When asked about her country of origin, although she describes herself as “strongly American in many ways,” she says she feels like a citizen of the world and that cultural diversity is

Raniere Menezes was born in Pescheira, a village in Pernambuco, in northeastern Brazil. He is 30 years old and speaks Portuguese, English and Italian. He arrived in Italy almost by chance in 2019 when he was still a doctoral student: his tutor in Brazil had contact with a professor at the University of Turin who

Mohamed Ali is 28 years old and was born in Giza “near the Pyramids“. He speaks four languages (Italian, English, Arabic and Portuguese) and has lived in Italy for eight years. He chose to come to Italy to pursue his studies, with a scholarship, after graduating with an industrial technical focus from the Salesian Don

Fabiano, born in 1976 in Belo Horizonte, southeastern Brazil, speaks English, Italian, Portuguese, and German. He arrived in Italy in 2016 and lives in Beinasco, with his Italian wife whom he met in Brazil: “her father worked in Brazil for Fiat, and I met her there twenty-six years ago“. There is a small twinning between

Originally from Morocco but in Italy, in Turin, since 1999, she now feels she has a dual Moroccan and Italian identity. Faiza speaks English, Arabic, French and Italian. After graduating with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in particle physics from Morocco, she arrived in Italy through a collaboration between the University of Oujda in Morocco

Ascolta “Dal Messico per amore… della microbiologia” su Spreaker. Jatziri Mota Gutierrez is 34 years old and from Mexico, from Cuernavaca. She came to Italy six years ago to follow her boyfriend from Brescia. “I came to Italy for love. Then the story ended, but I received the best gift in the world because now

Born in Senegal in 1972 in the southern region of Casamance, Souleymane came to Italy in 2004 with his Italian partner who was pregnant with their first child. The idea was to stay a couple of months with her and then return to Senegal together, where he worked as an official in the Ministry of

Fatima was born in Beirut. She had no intention of leaving Lebanon but was forced to leave because of her country’s economic and sociopolitical crisis. Once graduated from the University of Beirut Arab in civil engineering, she chose Italy. “I started over from a bachelor’s degree program in Business Management, in English, at SAA in

Shuyi Yang was born in 1991 in the city of Wenzhou, China, and came to Italy when he was 10 years old to be reunited with his family. He currently lives in Turin, where he grew up, studied and now works. He speaks Italian, English and Chinese “in that order, in the sense that the