WE ARE THE MIGRANTS

“WE ARE THE MIGRANTS” is the climax in a journey which has seen the ITHACA Project build a community around a collection of stories celebrating the diver – sity at stake when exploring past and contemporary migrations. In this eBook, from Tunisia all the way to England, we sensed all the potential that comes with this extremely simple and powerful tool. Embracing this intuition led the partner Countries and their respective institutions to launch the first ITHACA Diary Contest in September 2023, encouraging people with migratory backgrounds throughout the Mediterranean region to share family or personal autobiographical accounts. This call merged with the successful experience of DiMMi Multimedia Migrant Diaries, born in Tuscany in 2012 thanks to the National Diary Archives of Pieve Santo Stefano. We gathered 47 stories from 7 different countries, using diverse codes. What you will find in this eBook are 16 of the 18 finalist authors. The eBook is divided into four main sections that render the multifaceted aspects of migrations, thus suggesting that any reading which fails to adopt an intersectional lens on the topic is bound to fail. The structure itself exemplifies the complex relationship between multiple causes and effects.