Family History
My name is Gloriana, a 4th-generation child of Italian immigrants. Due to the lack of information regarding my ancestry, I decided to start collecting as much data as possible from online sources. It has been an insightful experience to get familiar with the past. I have never considered myself as an immigrant, yet after digging more about my past I have come to realize I have crossed feelings about it. Since I was little, I had feelings of displacement and strangeness every time people would ask me about my unusual last name. I would unconsciously hid behind my mom's skirt, and later I just secretly hoped people wouldn't ask me about my past. Little importance did I gave to gathering information, until years later when pursuing an undergraduate degree in English and cultural studies at the UCR, then at a master's level in Bamberg University. Now, studying in Barcelona, I strongly experienced the sight of an immigrant. The answers to where I belong, who I ...