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Sep 09 2006 - 16:00

Palazzo della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto

G2: The Second Generations

Gennaro Schettino

Moderated by Roberto Keller


Today's Italy is a country still unconsciously multicultural, where diverse traditions, languages, origins, and values coexist in a melting pot that increasingly makes it difficult to speak of us and them as distinct entities.

Mutual knowledge and the appreciation of these diversities seem to be the only path toward conscious integration, aimed at recognizing not only the problems related to immigration but also the complex psychological and emotional condition experienced by over five hundred thousand young people born in Italy to foreign couples.

Gennaro Schettino explores the issues related to the reality of the second generations of immigrants, young people whose very existence bridges two cultures, offering both the possibility to enrich, understand, and confront each other on new ways of coexistence and development.

Gennaro Schettino, a professional journalist since 1987, has been dealing with social and economic issues for over twenty years. He has worked as a researcher at Censis and Ires Cgil, and as a journalist at Ansa and the daily newspaper La Repubblica. Since January 2006, he has been the director of Metropoli, the Sunday supplement of La Repubblica dedicated to multicultural Italy.