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|title=My name is Maria Fresia. I come from Rome.
|author=
|book=The Migrant Times
|editor=
|publisher=Canterbury Migrants Centre
|year=2016
|pages=
|language=English
|online=YES
|topic=Italian women, Recent migrants, Maria Fresia, 
|time=1988 to 2016
|geo=Christchurch
|link=https://themigranttimes.org.nz/your-corner-migrant-stories/2016/8/18/my-name-is-maria-fresia-i-come-from-rome
}}

Article in the magazine of the Canterbury Migrants Centre [https://themigranttimes.org.nz/ The Migrant Times] about Maria Fresia. Maria arrived in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch Christchurch] in November 1988, with her husband, a New Zealander. She is a member of the [[Dante Alighieri di Christchurch|Dante Alighieri Society of Christchurch]] and works as a teacher and interpreter. In the article she explains the challenges she met moving to Christchurch, her work as a Montessori teacher and teacher of Italian language for the [https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/ Canterbury University] Continuing Education Programme, the 2010 earthquakes, and the arrival in New Zealand of her twin sister Sandra, who lives in Auckland.