Country of origin: chechnya
Year of settlement: 36
Age on arrival: 2017
City: turin
Gender: female
Language of the interview: Italian
[i] Are you a little tense?
[r] Yes
[i] How come? I’m not scared?
[r] No, I’m always afraid and I don’t like that.
[i] No you don’t have to think about it, this is one more thing don’t pay attention let’s have a chat so you are a beautiful woman from time to time really compliments
[r] Thank you.
[i] Compliments. Have you lived here for a long time?
[r] For a year and a half
[i] Here in Colloretto?
[r] Yes to Coloretto
[i] Where did you live before?
[r] Before coming here I was in Sweden for 8 months.
[i] Where in Sweden?
[r] In Sweden I was in a small town called Sevro
[i] And then you moved here to Italy?
[r] Yes
[i] What about before Sweden?
[r] In Russia
[i] Were you born in Russia?
[r] Yes
[i] Where in Russia?
[r] In Chechnya
[i] In which city of Chechnya? Where exactly in Chechnya? Where were you born?
[r] In Grozny, the capital of Chechnya
[i] You were born in Grozny
[r] Yes yes.
[i] And your family is from Grozny?
[r] Yes
[i] And your parents were born there in Grozny, too?
[r] Yes they too
[i] And what were your parents doing?
[[r] Now my father’s gone and my mother’s gone.
[i] And what work did they do when you were a little girl
[r] Me?
[i] No your parents
[r] My mother worked in the shop as a trader my father did several jobs now I do not remember
[i] No problem.
[r] Because he died 20 years ago.
[i] Years ago.
[r] He was sick.
[i] I get it, so you were born in Chechnya in Russia where they also speak Russian?
[r] Yes
[i] Can you even write Russian?
[r] Yes yes
[i] Have you studied Russian?
[r] YES yes
[i] What have you studied and until when?
[r] I studied the first schools 11 years and then the university
[i] What college did you go to?
[r] It’s a university that doesn’t have a title here, it has to do with oil, my professorship is technological.
[i] So technological engineering?
[r] Yes, but I didn’t work with my profession, but I did another job.
[i] And what work did you do?
[r] I worked as a clerk in an office like INPS here in Italy.
[i] Are you like contributions and these things here?
[r] Yes
[i] There in Chechnya?
[r] Yes in Chechnya
[i] Have you worked for a long time?
[r] I’ve been working for 7 years.
[i] So how many languages do you speak besides Russian and Italian?
[r] My mother tongue is Russian, I speak a bit of English
[i] Okay and Chechen?
[r] I speak Chechen, my mother tongue
[i] The Chechen language then Russian a little English
[r] And a bit of Italian
[i] And where did you go to university in Chechnya or Russia?
[r] In Chechnya
[i] In Chechnya, did you graduate in Chechnya?
[r] Yes in Chechnya
[i] And you were a clerk.
[r] Yes yes.
[i] What are you doing here now? Here in Coloretta?
[r] I do the Italian course here, because this year I’m in the eighth grade
[i] Do you like it?
[r] Yes, I study little because there is no time for me because I have small children
[i] You got kids?
[r] You are male and female, the male is 3 and a half years old, the female is 8 months old.
[i] It’s so small, then you got a lot of work to do.
[r] Yes.
[i] Is it an important job to be a mom and you’re teaching them Chechen as a language? How do you talk to children?
[r] I talk to them in Chechen Russian Italian
[i] So they’re going to be very rich polygrott kids you say
[r] My son is now at the isilo in kindergarten speaks Italian very well
[i] So you’re keeping aliens with him?
[r] YES yes
[i] Where do you go to kindergarten? Here at Coloretto?
[r] Yes here at the Necklace
[i] Does he have any companions?
[r] Yes
[i] Is that okay?
[r] Yes very well
[i] Can you have a dialogue with the other mothers of Coloretto? Can you talk to them?
[r] Yes, when I see you at school, I went to 2 birthdays of my son’s classmates.
[i] Did you go?
[r] Yes yes
[i] Have you ever invited any of his comrades home before?
[r] From school?
[i] Have they come to your house?
[r] No
[i] Would you like that?
[[r] Yes Yes. a family of our friends from the Ukraine his daughter is the class company of my son
[i] Sure.
[r] She came, but other moms didn’t.
[i] Not yet.
[r] Italians not yet
[i] Would you like that?
[r] Yes
[i] Can you cook?
[r] Yes
[i] Can you cook Chechen food?
[r] Yes yes
[i] And what are the typical dishes of Chechen cuisine that you know how to do at home?
[r] I don’t know the right name in Italian there are sweet and savory dishes like a meat dish with tortellini pasta
[i] With pasta?
[r] Yes with pasta another dish but I forgot how you say in Italian with the sauce
[i] Tomato?
[r] No tomato no but with alio
[i] Helium?
[r] Helium yes
[i] Iulium woodchips
[r] It’s a woodchip.
[i] What’s the name of this dish in Chechen?
[r] In Chechen ?
[i] What is the name of the dish in Chechen or Russian?
[r] Translated into Italian?
[i] No in original language
[r] Ah in original language
[r] “Gigi Golnerch”
[i] Gigi Golnerch. And would you like to invite Italian mothers to taste Gigi Golnerch?
[r] Yes
[i] And instead of Italian cuisine, have you learned how to cook?
[r] No, I want to learn a little bit.
[i] Do you want to learn?
[r] Yes
[i] Who else do you live with here, just you and your kids?
[r] My husband too
[i] Is your husband there?
[r] Yes
[i] He’s also from Chechnya.
[r] Yes yes.
[r] What’s he doing here?
[r] He’s in eighth grade, and he’s in mechanical school, too.
[i] What did he do in Chechnya?
[r] He has been little in Chechnya
[i] Why is he from where?
[r] In Russia in Moscow
[i] Is it of Moscow origin?
[r] Yes, for reasons of problems he worked in Moscow.
[i] And what did she work for?
[r] The insurance
[i] Insurance?
[r] Yes yes
[i] Are you now doing your Mechanics class?
[r] Yes
[i] Are you all right here in Colloretto?
[r] Yes
[i] Would you like to continue living here?
[r] Yes because it’s a quiet place and I like it
[i] And is there something that you would like to have here at Colloretta that is missing? a service… something that is not there and that you would like for you for the children?
[[r] I always say for me everything is fine for the children there is no playground
[i] There’s no playground so there’s a playground for the kids.
[r] Yes
[i] Is the transport all right?
[r] Yes for the bus and these things here
[r] The bus is a bit ‘difficult because this road is difficult
[i] And you want to raise your children here in Colleretto?
[r] Yes
[i] Well, well. Can you tell me your name well that I don’t remember it?
[r] [name]
[i] Thank you very much [name] it was a pleasure chatting with you
[r] Thanks to you.