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#Fernando_Sdrigotti : Where are you from ?

#Where_are_you_from? I can’t think of any other question that I’ve heard with more frequency than this one – at least during these 12 years that I’ve lived in London. I’ve always found it strange. Perhaps because hearing that question made me aware of me “not being from here”. Being an Argentine I had – wrongly or mischievously – been told that I was a bit from here, less Latin American, more European, blah blah. Of course, I wasn’t – I know that now. It took one migration officer for me to realise that. What hadn’t initially sunk in did so during my first job interview, or my first experience with “dating” (spiteful word), or even the first time I called back home and had to think of my mother’s number preceded by an international code. Not being from here affects your everyday life. This happens to any deterritorialised person. Yet the way we experience not being from here has shifted radically, here in the UK, in 2014.

▻http://www.migrantvoice.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=493%3Afernando-sdrigotti-

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