Guided tours, workshops, and in-depth discussions on historical and contemporary emigration, with a special educational project focused on the expatriation of young people and minors. This is "Great Expectations: A Departing Generation – Young San Marino Citizens and Emigration," an initiative by the Emigration Research Center – Emigrant Museum of the University of the Republic of San Marino, involving elementary, middle, and high school students in San Marino and beyond. The series of meetings, which analyze the historical situation and social factors that led to the emigration of numerous San Marino minors, began in November and will continue until May 2019.
"The educational activities we have designed for schools offer citizenship education courses aimed at deepening understanding of the collective memory of the San Marino community, whose values have been maintained and consolidated also through the commitment of the Consulta dei Cittadini Sammarinese Abroad and the San Marino Communities, which, through their activities, continue to develop the network of relationships that have been, and still are, the strength and heritage of San Marino." This was explained by the Director of the Research Center, Patrizia Di Luca, speaking on the eve of International Migrants' Day, established in 2000 by the United Nations General Assembly and chosen to commemorate the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, approved by the UN on December 18, 1990. "Since the second half of the 19th century, many San Marino citizens have courageously faced the difficult experience of emigration, leaving out of necessity to travel to other countries in search of work and better living conditions. Emigration," Di Luca continues, "has been the only solution to the economic problems of people who, with their commitment, have contributed both to the economic growth of the countries to which they moved and to that of San Marino, the homeland from which they had left with regret and to which their savings and 'remittances' were directed. This is an important story, remembered by the presence of the 25 communities of San Marino residents." abroad, currently made up of citizens fully integrated into diverse social contexts. The Emigration Research Center – Emigrant Museum helps keep alive the memory and example of this chapter in history, which involved so many families.
