Chapter 45: Migrants to repopulate depopulated villages - Riace in Calabria, Italy and its mayor Mimmo Lucano
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In Riace migrants were invited to settle in empty homes, take up abandoned land, revive traditional production of goods and services, mixing their own traditions with the local ones. Because of its success, the experiment was terminated by a nationalist antiimmigration minister of the Interior in Italy central government.

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