swissinfo has launched an interactive, multimedia special aimed at people whose ancestors left Italian-speaking Switzerland for a better life abroad.
“We shall not stay long” (
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/specials/swiss-italian_migrations/index.html?siteSect=22500) includes background texts, interviews with experts and multimedia reports investigating the conditions that led to the migrations, the eventual journey into the unknown for tens of thousands and the world these “emigranti” would eventually find.
Interactive elements include a blog (
http://migration.swissinfo.ch/?cat=29&submit=View&lang=eng&market=yes), picture upload, and genealogical database and are designed to bring together people with a common heritage - regardless of what part of the world they now live in.
