comunità ucraina

Irina is 35 years old and originally from Kropyvnytsky, a town in central Ukraine.Fifteen years ago, after completing her studies, she arrived in Italy, in Perugia, to join her mother, who had already been in our country since 2000.«My mother came out of need, to work, like many other Ukrainian women did.For twenty years she has been assisting the elderly and disabled, she is a carer, as you say - she states -.He worked in many families, then, when he could, he had us arrive:first my brother then me." A path completely similar to that of the family of her partner, Oleksy.«My mother also left our city, Starokostjantyniv, twenty years ago, first to work as a family assistant, then as a social-health worker.After a few years, when she stabilized, we arrived with a family reunion.But today our thoughts are more than ever in Ukraine."Irina and Olesky are struggling to sleep these days, their cell phones ring constantly, the horror of war arrives on WhatsApp in a constant flow of images, vid...

Of Andrea Braschayko A few weeks ago I went to my grandmother, who lives alone – the rest of the family is in Ukraine – in a town near Caserta.Like many women from her country, she arrived in Italy representing, with pride and dignity, the poverty of the post-Soviet "wild nineties" which forced a generation of women into a life of caregiving and remittances.Although she never fully learned the language, my grandmother blended comfortably among Italian provincialism;here the nineties were, on the contrary, roaring.A stereotypical example was the husband from Caserta, who had gently aged on bread and Berlusconism. By force of circumstances, having got used to the television preferences of her now deceased partner, about twenty years later my grandmother and I found ourselves following the debates on the war in Ukraine on one of the most watched networks in that house, and for her the main source of information since February 24. I was obviously aware of what I was getting into.Apart from...