#theusweare

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Chapter 1. Genk. The us we are

22 / 26 October.

during 5 days of residency in Genk we had meetings with several people from the Italian community migrated to Genk during the mines time, comparing the first generation of miners workers with second and sometimes even third generations of workers out of the context of the factory.

What did they share? What was “us” and what is now? What do they share now?

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a certain value map

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Genk People

Salvatore and Salvatore, ex-miners

Viviane Dirckx, Calabrian/Belgian that works in the library

Katjia, Viviana’s daughter

Don Claudio Pellegrini, a Marxist worker-priest working in Ford factory since the ‘60, that then lost his vocation. Now says mass again

Fernando Marzo, ex-union representant

The Ambassadors: Aissia, cultural mediation with young people inside the library, she loves afro dance

Tayfun, cultural mediation with young people inside the library, he boxes and he is a rapper

Berke, cultural mediation with young people

Essediya, Tunisian - in search for a job

Favour, Nigerian - in search for a job

Diamillatou, Moroccan - in search for a job

Amalija, Slovenian - in search for a job

Ivo & Tore Deledda – ex-miner, now singers of the traditional Sardinian tenors-songs

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Hotel de Venne, Genk