Giorgio Fusco: Being Arbëresh teaches me to love
The indie-folk band SHEGA is preserving and renewing Arbëresh music and culture.
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'We maintain an equilibrium between the old, the ethnic and the contemporary.'
'The example of the Arbëresh people shows us that integration in a foreign land is possible, an integration without assimilation.'
'What is home can change — we are migrants at heart. Six-hundred years ago we left Albania, our motherland, to come here and now we are leaving here too, to go to America, Germany, Switzerland.'
Aulonë Kadriu
Aulonë Kadriu is a K2.0 senior editor. She has a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Prishtina and a graduate certificate in women, gender, and sexuality studies from the University of Kansas, U.S.
This story was originally written in Albanian.