Renzi reminded of Italian migration

(ANSA) - Rome, October 28 - Premier Matteo Renzi said Tuesday that traveling in Latin America has reminded him of when starvation and destitution drove hundreds of thousands of Italians to migrate across the ocean in search of a better future.
    "We often live our lives in subjugation to demagoguery and fear," Renzi wrote on Facebook in a diary of his Latin America tour, which ends when he leaves Cuba tonight.
    "I think about when the migrants were our grandparents, about their nightmares and hardships, and about the gratitude towards those who welcomed them".
    The so-called Italian diaspora or large-scale migration towards the Americas and Australia occurred in two waves, one between the unification of Italy in 1861 and the 1920s rise of Italian Fascism, and one after the end of World War II.