The ‘Aura’ of Home

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dima Issa
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
And Migration

Abstract In Arabic restaurants, sitting rooms and cars around the world, her voice filters through the airwaves, transporting listeners to narrow alleyways, cobblestones and the Mediterranean Sea, to a time of innocence and peace, determination and war, stability and acceptance. Her songs, melancholy memory and patriotic love shape Arab heritage and offer a focal point for identity construction. For many Arabs in the diaspora, Fairouz’s music is a tool of expression, a proxy for nostalgia and a call for resistance. Through a theoretical framework that combines affect, the mnemonic imagination and migration, I highlight the preliminary findings of my PhD research. This research involves a series of interviews with members of the Arab diaspora living in Doha, Qatar. I examine the role Fairouz’s music played in the lives of these interview subjects.

scholarly journals Migration, Borders, and Society

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-104
Author(s):  
Yrsa Landström ◽  
Magnus Ekengren
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
International Peace ◽  
The South ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
Societal Values ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Many ◽  
National Governments

AbstractIn recent years, we have learned that forced global migration pose a serious threat to international peace and societal values. Despite the many warnings and refugee crises across the world, most national governments have insufficiently addressed this threat. In this chapter, we try to explain this lack of action. The chapter explores possible explanations such as the denial mindset of “it probably won’t happen here (and if it does, it won’t affect my family and community)”. The chapter focuses on the border management crisis in Sweden in 2015. The Swedish government did not address the situation as a crisis until the refugees, who had been on the Mediterranean Sea and traversing north over the continent for months, ended up in Malmö in the south of Sweden in September 2015. This predictable set of events caused chaos for the unprepared Swedish police and the border and migration authorities who had to handle the situation under conditions of urgency and apparent uncertainty.

scholarly journals First report of an olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) inside the Mediterranean Sea

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 346 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. REVUELTA ◽  
C. CARRERAS ◽  
F. DOMÈNECH ◽  
P. GOZALBES ◽  
J. TOMÁS
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Accession Number ◽  
Olive Ridley ◽  
Genetic Analyses ◽  
First Report ◽  
Lepidochelys Olivacea ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Town

We report the first confirmed occurrence of a Lepidochelys olivacea in the Mediterranean Sea based on the study of an individual stranded on a beach, located in the town of Oropesa del Mar (40º05ʹ32ʺN, 0º08ʹ02ʺE), Castellón province, East Spain, in May 2014. Morphological and genetic analyses were used to confirm the identification of the species. The individual had a sequence that matched the 470 bp Lepidochelys olivacea haplotype F (Genbank accession number: AF051773), found in several Atlantic populations. This becomes one of the northernmost known occurrences of olive ridleys in the world and is the first reports of this species in the Mediterranean Sea.

scholarly journals Faithful to the Wor(l)d. Visual Texts, Responsibility and the Issue of Translation

Pólemos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-220
Author(s):  
Nicoletta Vallorani
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Visual Texts ◽  
Definite Time ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
And Migration

Abstract My work here focuses on translation and migration, with specific reference to the field of visual arts, exploiting the kind of approach suggested by Loredana Polezzi – and mostly applied to linguistic translation – in her “Translation and Migration”. My contention is that, though apparently mimetic and universally understandable, images are culture-bound and they need being translated when crossing a border. The process of translation becomes more and more complex when the represented object/events/person is framed within a much-debated and politically overloaded issue. Focusing on a definite time (today) and a specific space (the Mediterranean Sea), I select some artistic projects by both Western and non-Western artists, pursuing a twofold objective. I want to show how the selected works raise the issue of responsibility and I want to reflect on the “language” they use to “translate” an untranslatable experience into an understandable message.

“Our Dreams Are Not Different from Yours”

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (3) ◽  
pp. 654-660
Author(s):  
Marta Bellingreri
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
Freedom Of Movement ◽  
The World ◽  
International Audience ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
And Migration ◽  
European Youth

Migration and revolution in the Mediterranean area are inextricably connected. In this paper, I bring the stories of young Tunisian and Syrian revolutionaries of the 2008 and 2011 uprisings who were later forced into displacement and migration and who—both in their countries of origin and at European borders—demand freedom from their regimes’ oppression and freedom of movement. As European youth can mostly move freely in the world, Arab youth share the dream of doing the same. Both local tyrannies and their international allies, as well as unjust socioeconomic and migration policies, prevent these young people from living in dignity, from choosing where they live, and from being actors of change. The letters they share and the movement they found address an international audience and it to listen to their demands.

The generation of marine litter in Mediterranean island beaches as an effect of tourism and its mitigation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Grelaud ◽  
Patrizia Ziveri
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Plastic Material ◽  
Sandy Beaches ◽  
Mediterranean Islands ◽  
Plastic Pollution ◽  
Marine Litter ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
The World ◽  
Mediterranean Island ◽  
The Mediterranean

<p>With a coastal population of nearly 150 million inhabitants, the influx of freshwater from densely populated river catchments and a contribution to 30% of the global shipping activity, the Mediterranean Sea has been recognized as one of the world most affected areas by marine litter. Moreover, the countries surrounding the region yearly attract about one third of the world tourism. Taken together, these pressures make this semi-enclosed sea an accumulation zone for marine litter. This high contamination goes hand to hand with a stream of adverse effects to marine ecosystems, public health or socio-economic costs. The beaches are one of the main land-based sources for litter to enter the oceans. The Mediterranean Sea is not an exception as during the summer, the beaches are a hotspot for leisure. This is particularly true for the Mediterranean islands, which due to their attractiveness will host a far greater population during the summer. In this study we evaluate the seasonal variation of marine litter as an effect of tourism on sandy beaches of Mediterranean islands and we assess the effectiveness of pilot actions in order to reduce the amount of marine litter.</p><p>147 surveys were conducted in 2017 during both the low and high touristic season. For each of the eight participating islands (Mallorca, Sicily, Rab, Malta, Crete, Mykonos, Rhodes and Cyprus), three different beaches were selected: a touristic beach, a beach mainly used by locals and a remote beach. For each beach, a periodic monitoring was performed on the same fixed 100m portion. Here, any item found was collected, characterized and properly disposed of. We included the mesoplastics (0.5 – 2.5cm), large microplastics (0.1 – 0.5cm) and pellets (raw plastic material). In 2019, a monitoring of 11 of the selected beaches was conducted following the implementation of pilot actions (mainly awareness campaigns). To test their effectiveness, the results are compared to those of 2017.</p><p>Our results show that tourism in Mediterranean island beaches is a main driver of marine litter generation. Popular beaches (touristic and locals) are clearly the most impacted sites. Every day, during the high touristic season peak (July-August), visitors will leave (i.e.: cigarette butts, drink can, etc.) or generate (i.e.: MePs and MPs) 950 – 1190 items on every 100m of beach. This amount falls to 60 items for the remote beaches. At the region scale, we estimated that during July-August, visitors could be responsible for the accumulation of about 47.5 10<sup>6</sup> ± 13.5 10<sup>6</sup> items/day on the beaches of the Mediterranean islands.</p><p>The awareness campaigns is an efficient tool to reduce the amount of litter generated by visitors on the beaches. We observed an average decrease of 52.5% of the accumulation of the items abandoned by the visitors after the implementation of the pilot actions. These encouraging results probably benefit from the growing attention of the public to the plastic pollution issue. However, this reduction has a price: the average cost of the pilot actions for the whole high season would be of 111.6 k€ per km of beach.</p>

New records of the non-native amphipod Ampithoe valida in Europe

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Faasse
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
New Records ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
The World ◽  
Ampithoe Valida ◽  
The Mediterranean

The amphipod,Ampithoe valida, presumably native to the Atlantic coast of North America, has been recorded from several other parts of the world. Hitherto, the only published records from Europe originate from Portugal. Evidence is presented that this species has been introduced to northern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea as well.

Sailing Directions of the North Atlantic Viking Age (from about the year 860 to 1400)

1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Thirslund
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Fresh Water ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Viking Age ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
New Settlements

As long as man has ventured to go to sea, sailing directions have existed. Man's survival depended upon knowing the best fishing and hunting places and how to find these were secrets, told only to family or friends.Later, sailing directions covered areas in the world where trade or new settlements had begun and, as early as 500 years B.C., some of these sailing directions were written down. They covered the Mediterranean Sea and part of western Europe and they were called PERIPLUS meaning ‘sailing around’. They contained almost the same information as sailing directions today, namely: harbours, anchorages, currents, possibilities for fresh water, provisions and other supplies.

scholarly journals New records of the critically endangered Squatina squatina(Linnaeus, 1758) from Corsica, France

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthieu Lapinski ◽  
Ioannis Giovos
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
New Records ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Local Extinction ◽  
Critically Endangered ◽  
Nursery Ground ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Over Exploitation ◽  
Extinction Events

Angel Sharks are among the most threatened families of fish in the world. In the Mediterranean three species are present facing a severe depletion with several local extinction events as a result of over exploitation by fisheries. Hereby, we present 7 additional records of Squatina squatina from Corsica contributing to the new regional action plan for Angel Sharks in the Mediterranean Sea. Most records include juvenile specimens, indicating that the area might be a nursery ground for the species.

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