349 . Italiani di seconda e terza generazione > conversazione con Yolanda Persico

<p >In this fourth episode of a series exploring what it means to be second or third-generation Italian in New Zealand, Carla Rotondo talks to Yolanda Persico. Yolanda grew up in Nelson in The Wood, a neighbourhood densely populated by the Italians. Most Italians arrived in Nelson by chain migration from Massalubrense, including her paternal grandfather Giacomo, who became a naturalised citizen and returned to Italy to marry Yolanda's grandmother. Yolanda’s mother emigrated as a girl with her Gargiulo family; they also settled in The Wood and worked, like most of the Italian community, in the tomato growing production. Sh...