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NameIvan
Gendermale
Country of OriginArgentina
Destination CountryItaly
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My family is of Italian descent. My great grandparents arrived in Argentina in the 1920s and thanks to my grand-parents, I was exposed to the Italian language and culture and have always desired to go to Italy to be in touch with my origins. So I decided to move there 5 years ago and I am very satisfied with my new life. I adapted really well in Milan, even though it is not the friendliest – or lets say, the most Italian – city in the peninsula. Very often people ask me if I feel Italian after 5 years living here and I reply that I dont feel 100% Italian, but neither do I feel fully Argentinian. I feel both Argentinian and Italian. I dont have roots in only one place. I can develop new ties with a different land anywhere. The term migrant is usually linked to war or catastrophes, but there is another type of migration too. My family is an example of it: war was over, they were safe but they decided to leave their home country anyways. I feel good being a migrant, but I know that there are many countries that are still skeptical about us. Italy is one of them, and that is why you recognize ethnic groups very distinctively among locals. For example, Peruvians are friends with other Peruvians, Colombians with Colombians, etc. Here, I have always been told that I speak like Pope Francis, Italian but with a Spanish accent! So a friend of mine took a picture of the pope and swapped his face with mine. We had a good laugh. If I am asked where is home for me, Id say it is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. If in the future I have to or want to change country, culture, and language all over again, Id definitely do it. These are not boundaries to me.

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