Eastern Market
Every week-end in Milan at the parking lot close to the Cascina Gobba metro station, there's a changing city, a city that breathes new air and new tastes from Eastern Europe. The area outside the parking lot of Cascina Gobba turns into a market and a place to exchange objects and food. This place is of great importance to the Ukrainian, Moldavian, Romenian and Russian immigrants that live it , as it represents on small scale what their country was, and they can imagine for few hours to be there. That's how you meet every kind of stalls and the "carriers": commuters who travel once a week from Eastern Countries to Milan, carrying packages to the families and earning a few dozen euro. But the inhabitants of this area call this traffic as "the way of the care workers", as the confluence of these women in this area is very high, and their main occupation is taking care of our elderly (to whom we often don't give importance). Entering this world, so different from our origins and from the daily life today we are linked to, is such an incredible experience: we can travel those far away countries just through the people that live them. I believe that men today should love their own country keeping their traditions but also knowing how to appreciate other countries which are found not just at the Cascina Gobba's parking lot but all over the city. This reportage wishes to give a different look at our city, so that people can get to know a whole world inside the daily life of Milan.
