My investigation on the University of Pisa, the students and the unification of Italy made off the exit onto pisanotizie.it
Made off the trip between the University of Pisa. Students in the North and South students face to face: the numbers, the dreams, the reasons for a choice that for many represents an uprooting from their homeland. The first of two episodes devoted to a form of internal migration to our country
In Pisa bronze gaze of General examines the flow of the Arno. A little further on, on the parapet of the bank, now faded a plaque remembers the landing in the same position. Under the statue dedicated to him, groups of students from all over Italy are compared, they talk, argue and joke.
Our process starts right from Piazza Garibaldi, the city's social center, especially in its youth component, to move to another place where you can find the same variety of origins, backgrounds and "languages": the University of Pisa. If made in Italy, had to make the Italians, the University of Pisa is at least half a century, a microcosm, an insight into Italy's "real" live every day in which thousands of students from all regions of the peninsula.
Pisa is one of those realities university that welcomes students from all over Italy: from the South, historically, there are thousands of children who reach the city and have given over the years life to the phenomenon of "urban settlements". Many of them then compose a significant part of the "new" Pisa, since many are those who choose to remain living in the city.
Less than a thousand students are coming from the North. Perhaps the first clue of the North-South divide, which seems to still be bitter in our country and from which even the university system does not seem to be immune? The University of Pisa certainly appears as an interesting laboratory to analyze the phenomenon of student migration.
For some realities we can speak of true "exodus". About 57,097 total members are, according to data of ' Planning and General Statistics Office University of Pisa for the academic year 2009/2010, the Sicilians are 3225 in Pisa, 1843 Calabrese, 1883 from Puglia, 1324 the Sardinians, to mention the most numerous. Students in the South (from Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, Puglia, Sardinia and Sicily) represent 18.5% of total subscribers. The Unification of Italy, at least in the university of Pisa, is so constructed?
In an attempt to offer an answer, albeit partial, we met some of the students that make up this significant percentage of discovering subsequently that respondents can be divided into two blocks. The first is represented by the children they want, or at least wish, return to their homeland after studying: the dream, in this case is to be able to contribute to the development of the place where you were born, applying the knowledge gained to ' University. The second live the college experience as a prelude to a "forced" away from their homeland, perhaps as a view port which arrive to spend the final retirement.
But what then are the real reasons why so standing students to leave their region? Certainly in the South are actually very good university, "For some time - Says Claudia, 23, a political science student from Puglia - University of Salento is trying to put on a par with universities in the north, with excellent results. "
If, in fact, the" exodus "cover only the period studies, this could not be read as a symptom of a possible disunion, a gap between parts of the country. The problem is that, very often, even to do the job for which you have studied, the "knowledge migrants" do not return home. Similarly, it is interesting to note that most guys think that other countries at this historic moment is one of the most favorable to achieve its future: "We are forcing our politicians to go outside - says Angela, 23, of Sardinia, a student of sociology - the experience abroad is crucial, of course, but they force us to stay. "
The parallels drawn between migration and academic status of" health " the process of national unification, has aroused mixed reactions in students interviewed. "If there was a shift of students from universities in the north to the south - said Luke, 25, Puglia, joined the faculty of biology - then, yes, we could talk Unification of Italy. "
" When - continues Salvo, 22, economics student, Sicily - the Southern question in general, and with it the theme "Education in the South" will become a problem of all Italians, then you can talk about national unity, only then the unification of Italy will be complete. "
" If unification of Italy - says Cynthia, 26, of Sardinia, a political science - means in each region have the same opportunities, quality and quantity, then it is absolutely not done in Italy. On the other hand, I think it would be a step in this direction when the student is heard not only from Sardinia, Puglia, Sicily, Lombardy, but Italian and sees his being "out of office" as his right, a 'opportunity that comes from its being Italian. "
" The more it spreads phenomenon of the exodus - says John, 28, from Sardinia, a computer engineer - the more we strengthen the notion of the central state, in the margins of which are of peripheral, clearly disadvantaged. "
" Universities in Italy - Carmen concludes, 22 years, a student of political science, Sardinia - should be organized and run roughly in the same manner, so as to enable each, if he wants to remain at home. The choice of studying outside must be personal and not dictated by need. "Gaber
paraphrase:" I do not feel Italian, but I wish I was given the opportunity to hear this. "
Alice Pistolesi
Our process starts right from Piazza Garibaldi, the city's social center, especially in its youth component, to move to another place where you can find the same variety of origins, backgrounds and "languages": the University of Pisa. If made in Italy, had to make the Italians, the University of Pisa is at least half a century, a microcosm, an insight into Italy's "real" live every day in which thousands of students from all regions of the peninsula.
Pisa is one of those realities university that welcomes students from all over Italy: from the South, historically, there are thousands of children who reach the city and have given over the years life to the phenomenon of "urban settlements". Many of them then compose a significant part of the "new" Pisa, since many are those who choose to remain living in the city.
Less than a thousand students are coming from the North. Perhaps the first clue of the North-South divide, which seems to still be bitter in our country and from which even the university system does not seem to be immune? The University of Pisa certainly appears as an interesting laboratory to analyze the phenomenon of student migration.
For some realities we can speak of true "exodus". About 57,097 total members are, according to data of ' Planning and General Statistics Office University of Pisa for the academic year 2009/2010, the Sicilians are 3225 in Pisa, 1843 Calabrese, 1883 from Puglia, 1324 the Sardinians, to mention the most numerous. Students in the South (from Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, Puglia, Sardinia and Sicily) represent 18.5% of total subscribers. The Unification of Italy, at least in the university of Pisa, is so constructed?
In an attempt to offer an answer, albeit partial, we met some of the students that make up this significant percentage of discovering subsequently that respondents can be divided into two blocks. The first is represented by the children they want, or at least wish, return to their homeland after studying: the dream, in this case is to be able to contribute to the development of the place where you were born, applying the knowledge gained to ' University. The second live the college experience as a prelude to a "forced" away from their homeland, perhaps as a view port which arrive to spend the final retirement.
But what then are the real reasons why so standing students to leave their region? Certainly in the South are actually very good university, "For some time - Says Claudia, 23, a political science student from Puglia - University of Salento is trying to put on a par with universities in the north, with excellent results. "
If, in fact, the" exodus "cover only the period studies, this could not be read as a symptom of a possible disunion, a gap between parts of the country. The problem is that, very often, even to do the job for which you have studied, the "knowledge migrants" do not return home. Similarly, it is interesting to note that most guys think that other countries at this historic moment is one of the most favorable to achieve its future: "We are forcing our politicians to go outside - says Angela, 23, of Sardinia, a student of sociology - the experience abroad is crucial, of course, but they force us to stay. "
The parallels drawn between migration and academic status of" health " the process of national unification, has aroused mixed reactions in students interviewed. "If there was a shift of students from universities in the north to the south - said Luke, 25, Puglia, joined the faculty of biology - then, yes, we could talk Unification of Italy. "
" When - continues Salvo, 22, economics student, Sicily - the Southern question in general, and with it the theme "Education in the South" will become a problem of all Italians, then you can talk about national unity, only then the unification of Italy will be complete. "
" If unification of Italy - says Cynthia, 26, of Sardinia, a political science - means in each region have the same opportunities, quality and quantity, then it is absolutely not done in Italy. On the other hand, I think it would be a step in this direction when the student is heard not only from Sardinia, Puglia, Sicily, Lombardy, but Italian and sees his being "out of office" as his right, a 'opportunity that comes from its being Italian. "
" The more it spreads phenomenon of the exodus - says John, 28, from Sardinia, a computer engineer - the more we strengthen the notion of the central state, in the margins of which are of peripheral, clearly disadvantaged. "
" Universities in Italy - Carmen concludes, 22 years, a student of political science, Sardinia - should be organized and run roughly in the same manner, so as to enable each, if he wants to remain at home. The choice of studying outside must be personal and not dictated by need. "Gaber
paraphrase:" I do not feel Italian, but I wish I was given the opportunity to hear this. "
Alice Pistolesi
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