Description of the integration initiative implemented
Upon her arrival in Italy, the interviewee had a basic knowledge of Italian language, and a certain level of experience in her professional sector. At the beginning, her husband and his family played an important role in her adaptation and linguistic integration process: they were rather supportive to this regard. Professionally speaking, the contact established with a professor during a National Orthodontic Congress has played a key role in the process of her labour integration in Italy.

Personal story
The protagonist of this story is a 30-year-old woman who arrived in Italy in 2017. She graduated in dentistry in 2014 which allowed her to work in Albania until 2017. The reasons that led her to leave for Italy were not initially linked to the need of finding a job nor better living conditions. She actually came to Italy to visit her husband who had already found a job here. Although the reasons of her departure were not due to employment needs, she had started the procedures for transferring her profession as a dentist to Italy, and for recognising her qualifications by submitting the required documentation to the Ministry of Health. Initially, our interviewee had some language difficulties: she has never studied Italian at school in Albania, but English and French. Nonetheless, she was able to understand some Italian thanks basically to two factors: on the one hand, she had the possibility to catch Italian by watching Italian television programmes broadcast in Albania; on the other hand, "dental tourism", a common phenomenon due to lower costs of dental care services in Albania, allowed her to get into contact with Italian customers back in her homeland, i.e. before leaving for Italy. Moreover, during the four-month period prior to her arrival in Italy, she had bought handbooks of dentistry and orthodontics in Italian so as to acquire knowledge of the relevant professional terminology in Italian. In conjunction with her visit to Italy, she participated in a National Orthodontic Congress. On that occasion, she met the professor who organised the event, being also the President of SIDO (Italian Society of Orthodontics). Our interlocutress spoke with him about professional opportunities in Italy, and the professor expressed his willingness to help her in case she would have known of any dental studio looking for a dentist. After a month of time, just a day before her return to Albania, she – ready for departure – received a call from the professor telling her that there was a position available in the dental studio run by himself. After the job interview, she was hired as a dentist in this very studio, where she has been working to date. According to her working experience, our interlocutress states that she has never undergone forms of gender nor racial discrimination in Italy. Nonetheless, she adds that discrimination could occur in case of work uncertainty, i.e. with migrant women facing unstable employment. She further added that certain forms of "discrimination" were induced by the envy of some colleagues who envied her for her working a lot. She also admits that various medical contexts are male-dominated, and exemplifies the phenomenon by observing that 8 out of 10 participants in the conferences of her professional sector are men. During her college years, and especially since she has started working as assistant, the interviewee recalls some forms of envy from her male colleagues, which is – according to her – due to the fear that they might be overworked by her being a woman. At any rate, being a woman has not represented a discriminating factor in her professional fulfilment, namely: her own family has always supported her in terms of both economic and professional fulfilment, encouraging her to prioritise her professional growth over building a family. According to her story, her father offered some initial resistance when she got engaged to her current husband, with whom she has a daughter: her father simply wanted her to conclude first her studies and professional pathway without any distractions. She has adapted very easily in Italy, and has never experienced conflicting moments potentially related to religious or cultural aspects. She comes from an open-minded context, and this has allowed her not to be rigid, and to find a balance between her cultural and religious heritage and that of the country she has settled in, that is Italy. For the moment, our interviewee feels satisfied with her life, which is due to the right balance between luck and a lot of effort and dedication. The relationships she has established with Italians are not many so far: according to her, this is due to the fact that she arrived in Italy as adult, and to her working 42 hours a week, which altogether does not allow her to have time for many friendships. Being her goal "working less and earning more", she would like to continue her studies and to specialise further in her professional field: in fact, she is preparing to embark on specialisation in orthodontics in order to improve her professional and economic conditions. Although she feels well in Italy, she would not mind moving to another country, to one of those that prove to be at the forefront of her professional sector, i.e. dentistry: for example, she would like to move with her family to Dubai, but for the time being it is just a project.

Analysis of the initiative and individual story
From this story emerges the representation of a woman who has always had her goals “clear” – accordingly, her migration experience was not characterised by economic nor social hardships. Anyway, the “secret” of her success is given by a correlation of several factors, namely: first, she is coming from an open-minded and rather supportive family; second, she arrived in Italy with a well-defined professional background and experience gained in her country of origin; third, her husband and his family were already in Italy, and supported her during her early days in emigration. Thereby, her personal determination must be definitely mingled with these factors as they made it possible for her not to experience her migration process as a traumatic event. Furthermore, a series of fortuitous circumstances, such as having participated in a National Orthodontic Congress and having met a professor who helped her in finding a job in Italy, was the element that allowed her to continue, though with sacrifices, and to carry on her dream. In conclusion, her professional career and working experience act as a beacon of inspiration for her. Besides, she is satisfied with her personal, namely family situation. Being ambitious, the interviewee is rather focused on her work and professional future. During the interview, meagre references to her family in Italy emerged, as she was much more interested in talking about her personal and professional achievement: this denotes, as also affirmed by herself, that our interlocutress has managed to find a balance between her role of a professional (namely dentist), and that of mother and wife; such a balance would further contribute to overcome the stereotype present in Italy too, according to which a woman must choose between career and family. This is also a prospect that preponderantly emerges from the story of this woman who does not want to "settle down": she rather prefers to move on by searching better opportunities, even by moving to another country in case it might ensure improvements in her professional life and economic condition.

Results and Impact
This account can be considered a success story for several reasons. All things considered, it was a set of various resilience factors and random events that allowed her not only to reach a satisfactory professional position, but to aspire to constantly improve.