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Luigijeva vrnitev, ki je bila bolj »nepričakovana« in ki se zdi celo vsiljena s strani »pomembnih drugih«, je vsaj za Luigija še danes nekoliko »kontradiktorna«. Namreč vrnil se je v državo, ki se jo je več let namerno izogibal in ki ji je zameril marsikaj. Tako tudi, sicer bolj med vrsticami poudarja, da se ni posebno vživel v »izvorno« okolje: po osemnajstih letih bivanja v Italiji, ima še vedno več znancev v Belgiji, moti ga »italijanska mentaliteta« in nasploh veliko stvari, povezanih s to državo, ki jo ne opisuje z najlepšimi besedami. Belgijo je tudi po vrnitvi velikokrat še obiskal in jo še obišče. In konec koncev se ni nikoli prav zares vrnil: v Belgiji ima danes še sina, edinega potomca, in iz Belgije dobiva pokojnino. Mariova vrnitev pa je na drugi strani pomenila bolj ali manj dokončno slovo, oster rez s Švico. Čeprav se ni vrnil brez »posledic« izseljenskega okolja, Švice ni nikoli vzel za svojo. Sam, brez zunanje vzpodbude, je ure in ure pripovedoval o krivicah, ki je doživljal v tej »nadvse bogati« državi.
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However, more than searching for causes for migration/return the stress is in the text on the social context of the return. What does that mean? It is about social circumstances in different environments, which defined the act of migration/return. At this point, a fair sight into the migrant’s biography is extra profitable. Luigi’s return, which was “unexpected” and which seems even imposed from the side of the “important others” is at least for Luigi even today somewhat “contradictory”. Namely, he returned to a country, which he avoided deliberately for several years, and which he resented many a thing. Thus, more between lines, Luigi emphasises that he did not become particularly accustomed to the “original” environment: after eighteen years of living in Italy, he still has more acquaintances in Belgium; he is inconvenient with “Italian mentality” and with many things in general, connected with this state, which he does not describe with pretty words. After his return, he visited Belgium several times and still does so. In addition, he never actually returned: his son is in Belgium, his sole descendant, and from Belgium, he is receiving his pension. Mario’s return meant on the other hand a final parting, a rigid cut with Switzerland. Although Mario did not return without “consequences” of the emigrant environment, he never took Switzerland for his own. Spontaneously, with no external initiative, he spoke for hours and hours about the injustice, he experienced in that “excessively rich” country.
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