Diaspora! Where can you find Sicily?
Growing up in Sicily, I heard lots of stories of either relatives or entire villages emigrating to the Americas, Australia or even northen Europe; Sicilians searching "fortuna". Once I spent a few weeks in Filicudi (one of the Eolie islands), where the local grandmas were telling me how the island was almost deserted after the second world war. People would live their house and jump on a boat to the new world.
I always wondered why. Sicily seems to me as one of the most comfortable places on this planet. The weather is relatively mild and the land very fertile. Nowadays, Sicily has half of the population of Israel for a much larger territory and a much more fertile land. Wheather or not I can find out why, I can certainly found where and how many people actually emigrated.
How many people left Sicily? where did they go? and how does that compare to the migration in general throught Italy?
I collected a few links below that should shed some light on this.
where are sicilians emigrating nowadays?
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