‘We always got the dirtiest jobs’: A Maltese story of US emigration

The family’s official photograph just before they left Malta. From left to right: Victor, Josephine, Dolores, Rena on the pedestal, Grace, Frank and Joe.

Rena Xuereb has lived in the US state of Michigan for 73 years but her family still call her iż-żgħira, the Maltese phrase for the youngest one.Along with her mother and her five siblings, Rena emigrated from Malta at the age of four and has now written a book about their story.Entitled Courage of a...