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When the money ran out, Kadir stopped in Calabria, in Crotone, at a reception community for minors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He came to Italy with his stepmother (because his biological mother had died in Kurdistan), and his eight siblings; subsequently they were transferred to the reception center in Cortenuova for about ten years. Later, they were transferred to Renate, where Kadir began attending school and middle school.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kadir feels very comfortable in Italy, but he would like the Italian State to help foreign people a bit more, people who make themselves useful to the community by also performing tasks that many Italians refuse to do. He would also like them to facilitate obtaining Italian citizenship.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kadir, after working as a waiter and manager in some restaurants, decided to open his own rotisserie right in Arcore, in the heart of Brianza; a delicatessen shop with chicken specialties, but also first courses, lasagna, paella, Ascoli olives and mozzarella balls, just to give a few examples. <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Kadir promises to win over the most refined and demanding palates. With the specialty of spit-roasted chicken cooked evenly with infrared rays at a temperature of 170 degrees: he managed to win me and my family over and I hope he wins you over too: a story of hope and integration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Article written by a student from IIIB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone, this year during Civic Education lessons, in Italian, we explored many topics: the Italian Constitution, human rights, gender equality and much more&#8230; Within the context of Human Rights, many of us interviewed some immigrants in Italy and that is how I introduced my class to KADIR A., a thirty-year-old man with a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[381,382],"tags":[398],"class_list":["post-5901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-happens-at-rigola","category-latest-news","tag-literature"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Immigration stories<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kadir&#039;s story, a story of hope and integration. 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