Prima di conoscere gli altri, è meglio conoscere te stesso. La macchina fotografica aiuta a conoscerti. (Mohamed Keita)

Mara Scampoli

  • Home
  • Albums
  • Essays
  • Publications, Exhibition, Awards
  • About
  • Contacts
Home / Tags / inclusion
Share
Content Published May 24, 2023

MIXED

Sara, Italy and Mehdi, Iran. They met at a party in Venice in 2019. They started living together in the same year, then bought a house where they influenced each other immediately after the birth of their child, born in August 2022. "There are no major cultural differences, in we actually share values in a profound sense” they both say. They share a vision of the world and a certain political ideology. Sara fell in love with Mehdi's cheerfulness and liveliness, she loves Iranian food and dance. Mehdi arrived in Italy by chance but now he is happy he finds that Italy is a suitable place for him as he likes to live in a warm and lively social context Mehdi is a political refugee, he left his country due to problems in his previous activity as a journalist. He has always tried to see it as an opportunity for a new life, but in reality it hasn't been easy with friends and family. “The most painful thing for Mehdi is that he cannot go back to his country. For me it is a concern because he is very good at managing this weight but it is not easy” says Sara.

inclusion migration mixed couples

Share
Content Published November 7, 2021

MIXED

Alessandra, Italy and Daniel, Spain. In this photo they are expecting their first daughter. Daniel's father is from Santo Domingo and the mother is from Spain. They met in Palermo in 2013 and married in 2018. The fact of using two different languages was also a source of misunderstanding but according to Alessandra it is an enrichment. She likes Spanish and sometimes she prefers the way some concepts are spelled out. Being a mixed couple is an added value. At the beginning of coexistence they had to find their own way of being a couple, and reconcile the different cultural ways of seeing this.

inclusion migration mxed-couples

Share
Content Published November 7, 2021

MIXED

Giorgia, Italy and Christoph, Switzerland. Giorgia has dual Italian-Argentine citizenship. He has two brothers from an Italian-Thai father and a brother from an Argentine-Syrian mother. Something was miscommunicated in the beginning. They communicate with each other in English.

inclusion migration mxed-couples

Share
Content Published November 7, 2021

MIXED

Antonella, Italy and Hassan, Egypt. They met during a vacation, Hassan was a diving instructor. For Hassan, an important difficulty in adapting in Italy was the climate. In general he felt a lack of solidarity, he encountered many difficulties in finding a job. he finds that living in an apartment is quite limiting. When they can, they go to the river.

inclusion migration mxed-couples

Share
Content Published November 7, 2021

MIXED

Camilla,Italy,and George, Cameroon. They have been married since 2013 and have two children. On being a mixed couple George says that "if there were no borders, it would be normal". There are differences, says Camilla, and they enrich them, for example in the way of representing and managing time: here and now for George, in perspective for Camilla.

inclusion migration mxed-couples

Share
Content Published July 5, 2020

MIXED

They met during a master in Warsaw. At the beginning Jacopo was very concerned about cultural differences and the way in which these also profoundly shape thought. East and West have a profoundly different approach to the meaning of existence, says Jacopo. Over time it is these differences that have fascinated him. Mutual listening is very important to them. They communicate with each other in English.

inclusion migration mxed-couples

Share
Content Published July 5, 2020

MIXED

inclusion migration mxed-couples

Share
Content Published May 9, 2020

MIXED

inclusion migration mxed-couples

Share
Content Published January 26, 2020

MIXED

inclusion migration mxed-couples

Share
Content Published November 10, 2019

MIXED

Anna, Italy and Constant, Ivory Coast. Married since 2019. Constant arrived in Italy as a minor, lived in different cities, in Italy and France and did countless jobs. They feel the weight of the difference of origin only in the capacity to welcome the social environment. For example, it was difficult for them to find a rental, says Constant. According to him, the differences are more in personality than in origin. Anna, on the other hand, finds that there are important cultural differences, such as time management.

inclusion migration mxed-couples

Share
Content Published January 1, 2025

MIXED

Antonella, Italy and Hassan, Egypt. They met in 2006 in Marsa Alaam where she was on holiday and he was a manager of the diving centre. She returned to visit him twice a year until 2008. Then they broke up, he got married and went to live in England, but the marriage didn't work out and he returned to Egypt in 2012. In 2013 he started living again write them. They married in 2015, the following year Hassan moved to Italy. Hassan told us that, in general, he felt a substantial lack of solidarity and encountered many difficulties in finding a job. Another important adaptation difficulty in Italy was the climate. Used to living in more open spaces, he finds living in an apartment quite limiting. When they can, they go to the river.

inclusion migration mixed couples

Share
Content Published January 1, 2025

MIXED

Françoise, France, and Bruno, Italy. They met in a dance club in Paris, the city where Bruno had emigrated in the 1960s. They married secretly in 1961, she was 19 and he was 29. They lived in Paris for 6 years before returning to Italy because relations with their family were not good. They have 2 grown children. Françoise's parents initially strongly opposed the marriage because they considered Italians "frivolous, thieving and having many children". The differences between them are only cultural, they both say, and they can all be overcome. He has always been a sportsman, while she is a lover of opera and reading. Françoise dreams in Italian.

inclusion migration mixed couples

Share
Content Published January 1, 2025

MIXED

Monika, Poland and Marco, Italy. They met in Salento in 2014 at a folk dance workshop and have lived together since 2015. Being a mixed couple? According to them “it is a meeting/clash. It's not simple, it's not trivial. You discover and enrich yourself with a culture that is not yours. We are different in many things and trying to understand each other's point of view more leads you to ask yourself questions and not take anything for granted." Monika said: “sometimes I cling to cultural and identity habits. When we clash I always do an analysis on why this thing is important for me, whether I can leave this custom or habit or whether it is important for my identity. I am Polish in Italy, one more story about myself. A continuous discovery, but also a struggle in the lack, in the gaps of narrative meaning. In my opinion it is important to accept that narrative void, we don't always have to understand each other."

inclusion migration mixed couples

Share
Content Published January 1, 2025

MIXED

Oltea, Romania and Giuliano, Italy. They have been together since 1974. Oltea arrived in Italy in 1972 together with her first husband, also Italian. “Your home is that place where you stop your attempts to escape.” Oltea told us. I feel double in a certain sense, Italian and Romanian, an enrichment. When I return to Romania the differences emerge and I understand that my place is here. It's like a circular journey, happy on the way out and happy on the way back. Giuliano stated: “I don't know what it means to be a mixed couple, we are a couple and that's it. If anything, I am proud of the person Oltea was: a beautiful girl who became an engineer and mother of three children."

inclusion migration mixed couples

Share
Content Published January 1, 2025

MIXED

Silvia, Italy, and Sam Manawa, New Zealand. The shared creative and planning dimension is very strong in this couple. Both Silvia and Sam deeply feel the connection with the earth and the generative power of the feminine. Together they created an outdoor education project that is inspired by forest pedagogy and leverages the concepts of exploration and free play, immersion in nature and an educating community. In his work, Manawa uses therapeutic skills that derive from Maori culture. Their diversity fuels their projects and their creativity. They have a daughter.

inclusion migration mixed couples

Share
Content Published January 1, 2025

MIXED

Alessandra, Italy and Jimi, Nigeria They met very young at a nightclub in 2007 in Vicenza, they have lived together since 2011, they have two children. Alessandra comes from a Catholic family and then embarked on the path of approaching the evangelical Christian religion. Jimi's father became an evangelical Christian pastor and he grew up in his father's church and had a profound experience of Christianity. Jimi manages the choir at the church they attend. He is very involved in social work but this commitment, deriving from belonging to the evangelical community, was initially an element of difficulty. Their strengths are flexibility and dialogue. Being a mixed couple requires a few more sacrifices than people of the same nationality make, they say. To create a family they found compromises and began a spiritual journey together in a new church, where Italian is spoken.

inclusion migration mixed couples

Share
Content Published January 1, 2025

MIXED

Camilla, Italy and George, Camerun They have been married since 2013 and have two children. On being a mixed couple George says that "if there were no borders, it would be normal". There are differences, says Camilla, and they enrich them, for example in the way of representing and managing time: here and now for George, in perspective for Camilla.

inclusion migration mixed couples

Share
Content Published January 1, 2025

MIXED

Jili, China and Benedetta, Italy They met in Shanghai in 2013 and decided to settle in Trieste, Benedetta's hometown, where they have lived together since 2015. They married in 2016 in Portugal and have a son born in 2020. For them, being a mixed couple means "two cultures that meet with respect". There are cultural differences, and many compromises are necessary, but they also bring great enrichment for both. “Compromises because we belong to different cultures, which have different sensitivities and priorities,” said Benedetta. Cultural differences exist and are highlighted above all in the way of experiencing parenting, in the way of understanding education and the relationship with the child, Jili told us. In Chinese culture, education and social success are very important, while in Italy more importance is given to individual well-being.

inclusion migration mixed couples

Share
Content Published January 1, 2025

MIXED

Martina, Italy and Nourou, Senegal Martina has been attracted to black Africa since she was a child, at 15 she went to visit her father who worked as a teacher in Nigeria and found here what she had always felt. Nourou, after a brief stay in France to study, arrived in Italy in December 2000. In 2005 he met Martina because he went to the municipality office, where she worked, to renew his residence permit. They got married in the Mosque in 2009 and in 2015 in the Municipality. They adopted a niece of Nourou who arrived in Italy in 2021. Martina and Nourou run a volunteer project in Senegal which is dedicated to Martina's dad. The Senegalese community perceives Nourou as a black toubab, which in its language means "white man" because he has Western behavior. Martina finds that the African man is simpler in his relationship with the feminine because he is more in contact with masculine strength. Martina has always imagined marrying an African man.

inclusion migration mixed couples

Share
Content Published January 1, 2025

MIXED

Wei, China, and Jacopo. Italy. They met during a master's degree in Warsaw, after a few years of long-distance relationship they have lived together in Italy since 2019. At the beginning Jacopo was very worried about cultural differences and the way in which they also profoundly shape a person's thoughts. There are some aspects of Wei's way of being, respecting others, not entering into conflict, which he himself risked misinterpreting as a lack of reciprocity, as a sign of stereotyping male/female roles. East and West have a profoundly different approach to the meaning of existence, Jacopo told us. Over time, it is precisely these differences that fascinated him and enriched their couple. They both believe that listening to each other is very important. They communicate with each other in English.

inclusion migration mixed couples

Tags
  1. 26

    reportage
  2. 22

    migration
  3. 21

    inclusion
  4. 12

    mixed couples
  5. 10

    mxed-couples
  6. 5

    padova
  7. 5

    refugees
  8. 5

    school
  9. 4

    documentary
  10. 4

    migrants
  11. 3

    accoglienza
  12. 3

    lies
  13. 3

    migranti
  14. 2

    architecture
  15. 2

    athens
  16. 2

    calais
  17. 2

    casa a colori
  18. 2

    cefalonia
  19. 2

    city plaza
  20. 2

    photographic laboratory
Featured albums

  • MIXED

    Documenting the reality of mixed couples in Italy

  • Pride

    Padova Pride 2018. After 16 years from the National Pride, the demonstration for the pride and visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people returns to Padua..

  • We'll come United

    A short photographic tale of the squatted "City Plaza" Hotel in Athens, and the stories of the refugees who have found hospitality there. Un breve racconto dell'Hotel occupato "City Plaza" di Atene, e delle storie dei rifugiati che vi abitano

  • Giorgio il pastore (Il figlio di Ulisse)

    The story of the meeting with Giorgios, shepherd in the mountains of Kefalonia, Greece.

  • Playing in Addis

    The story of the artistic encounter between the italian singer Debora Petrina, and the etiopian dancer Melaku Belay.

  • Casa dei Diritti "Don Gallo"

    The "House of Rights Don Gallo" a building occupied by migrants in the center of Padua from December 2013 until March 2017.

  • Diadie, Soumaila et les autres

    Snapshots along the path of integration of Diadie and Soumaila, from their arrival in Padua, in the migrant's center, to the obtaining documents and economic and housing autonomy.

  • Calais: una giungla costruita sulla sabbia

    A journey into the world of volunteering in the largest refugee camp in Europe

  • Srebrenica 1995-2015

    The reportage of the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.

  • Another Venice

    A look at the minor islands of the Venice lagoon.

Featured essays

  • Srebrenica: do not forget

    http://www. positive-magazine. com/srebrenica-not-forget/ Every year, on July 11th, the town of Srebrenica changes. A crowd about twice the size of the entire population of the small village counting 15,000 people, pours into Srebrenica where, in 1991… Read more

  • Calais

    Un viaggio nel mondo del volontariato nel campo profughi più grande d'Europa Read more

  • La Casa dei Diritti Don Gallo: un'esperienza di resistenza attiva all'esclusione sociale

    Anche Obum, che di anni ne ha 34, ha trovato finalmente una nuova collocazione presso una Cooperativa. Sbarcato a Lampedusa nel 2011, aveva lasciato il Biafra nel 2007 per andare in Libia, dove ha lavorato per tre anni come elettricista presso l'ENI… Read more

  • Istantantanee di viaggio. Di come le relazioni generino accoglienza

    Una multivisione che racconta gli spazi dell’integrazione nella città di Padova, e la vita degli immigrati oltre l’emergenza Read more

  • We struggle togheter, we live togheter

    Il refugee accomodatio Read more

  • La città raccontata dai suoi abitanti. Lo strumento fotografico per una cittadinanza attiva

    Lo strumento fotografico è un potente mezzo di comunicazione che può essere utilizzato per consentire alle comunità di esprimere il proprio punto di vista. Assieme all'Associazione LIES-Laboratorio dell'inchiesta economica e sociale da diversi anni… Read more

Links
  • Publications, Exhibition, Awards
  • About
1 of 2
  1. 1 2
  2. >
Tweet
  • Home
  • Albums
  • Essays
  • About
  • Publications, Exhibition, Awards
  • Contacts
  • Facebook
© Mara Scampoli | Built with Koken