MIGRATION STORY

Hi, I’m here to tell you the story of my family’s emigration.

My name is Dario, I am 16 years old, I live in Putignano, in Apulia, in Italy. My father’s name is Mario, he is Italian and he is a bricklayer. Instead, my mother’s name is Farmazon Carmen, she’s Romanian and she owns a small business: a tobacco shop in my country. I have two siblings, an older half-sister and an older half-brother.
I speak Italian and Romanian and at school I study English, German and Spanish. I really like sports and motorcycles, in fact I play in a basketball team in my country and I practice motocross.

Romania is located in central-eastern Europe. The current territory of Romania is divided between mountains, hills and plains. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Romanians. The main language is Romanian and there are also other languages spoken by minorities in the area. Romania is an economically poor and backward nation. Romania is a place of immigration for Rom, who use the wealth of the state to have a better life.

In 2002 my father moved to Fetesti in Romania in order to work to work in the building sector. My mother lived in Fetesti and there my father met her and it was love at first sight: they fell in love. They began to meet and date, and in August 2003 they got engaged. My mother was not satisfied with the reality in which she lived, she wanted to have a more comfortable life and improve her economic conditions also to ensure a better future for my stepsister. So, my parents decided to move to Italy, and to live at my father’s house. After a few months, my mother found out that she was pregnant with me and spent her pregnancy in Italy. I was born on 24th January in 2005. When I was 2 years old, my parents took me to Romania to introduce me to part of my family and we stayed there a year, and then we came back to Italy.