scholarly journals Plastic Hospitality: The Empty Signifier of the EU's First Reception System in the Mediterranean

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela DeBono
Keyword(s):  
Reception System ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Empty Signifier

scholarly journals Plastic hospitality: The empty signifier at the EU’s Mediterranean border

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela DeBono
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
International Security ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Irregular Migrants ◽  
State Security ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Reception System ◽  
Empty Signifier

AbstractHospitality and hospitality-laden language feature highly among people working in or around structures of first reception in Italy and Malta, two countries at the European Union’s (EU) external border. This is peculiar because hospitality rarely features at first reception, which forms part of the state’s border system. Characteristically, security issues are prioritized, and the first reception system is managed by the member state’s security agents, in collaboration with EU and international security agents. In practice, first reception refers to the processes of identification, registration, and classification that irregular migrants go through after having crossed the border without authorization and, often, without identification. Drawing on long-term and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in Italy and Malta, this article examines some of the uses of hospitality language by a spectrum of territorial borderworkers operating with state, non-state, security, humanitarian, and activist entities in the two countries that are the object of this study. Discourse analysis yields interesting insights into how the use of the hospitality paradigm and hospitality terminology in first reception is less about hospitality practices and more about power. It proposes that the hospitality paradigm be conceptualized as a Laclauian empty signifier, and therefore, as a locus of power.

scholarly journals Burnout and Engagement Dimensions in the Reception System of Illegal Immigration in the Mediterranean Sea. A Qualitative Study on a Sample of Italian Practitioners

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 3726
Author(s):  
Marcello Nonnis ◽  
Mirian Agus ◽  
Monica Piera Pirrone ◽  
Stefania Cuccu ◽  
Maria Luisa Pedditzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Illegal Immigration ◽  
Job Demands ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Professional Efficacy ◽  
Reception System ◽  
The Mediterranean

The present study describes the semantic nature of burnout and engagement in the operators involved in the management of illegal immigration. Semi-structured interviews were conducted on a sample of Italian practitioners (n = 62) of the two levels of the reception system considered: (1) rescue and first aid and (2) reception and integration. Within the framework of the job demands–resources model (JD-R), the interviews deepened the analysis of the positive and negative dimensions of burnout and engagement: exhaustion versus energy, relational deterioration versus relational involvement, professional inefficacy versus professional efficacy and disillusion versus trust. The interviews were analysed using the T-Lab software, through a cluster analysis (bisecting K-means algorithm), which emphasised noteworthy themes. The results show that, in the vast majority of the dimensions considered (for both levels of reception), the same dimensions of engagement of the operators (energy, relational involvement, professional efficacy and trust) are able to lead them into a condition of burnout, with experiences, conversely, of exhaustion, relational deterioration, professional inefficacy and disillusion. These findings expand the knowledge on burnout and engagement in practitioners of illegal immigration, a context characterised by the value of help and welcome.

115 Heart failure mortality due to ischemic etiology: is it the same in the Mediterranean lifestyle?

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-29
Author(s):  
M JIMENEZNAVARRO ◽  
J GOMEZDOBLAS ◽  
G GOMEZHERNANDEZ ◽  
A DOMINGUEZFRANCO ◽  
J GARCIAPINILLA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
The Mediterranean

Homocysteine Levels Show Significant Differences among Mediterranean Dietary Quality Index Variables Compared to Folate and Vitamin B12 Status in Women

2015 ◽  
Vol 85 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 202-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivona Višekruna ◽  
Ivana Rumbak ◽  
Ivana Rumora Samarin ◽  
Irena Keser ◽  
Jasmina Ranilović
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Diet ◽  
Diet Quality ◽  
Quality Index ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Dietary Quality ◽  
Vitamin B ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Poor Diet ◽  
The Mediterranean

Abstract. Results of epidemiologic studies and clinical trials have shown that subjects following the Mediterranean diet had lower inflammatory markers such as homocysteine (Hcy). Therefore, the aim of this cross-sectional study was to assess female diet quality with the Mediterranean diet quality index (MDQI) and to determine the correlation between MDQI, homocysteine, folate and vitamin B12 levels in the blood. The study participants were 237 apparently healthy women (96 of reproductive age and 141 postmenopausal) between 25 and 93 years. For each participant, 24-hour dietary recalls for 3 days were collected, MDQI was calculated, and plasma Hcy, serum and erythrocyte folate and vitamin B12 levels were analysed. Total MDQI ranged from 8 to 10 points, which represented a medium-poor diet for the subjects. The strength of correlation using biomarkers, regardless of group type, age, gender and other measured parameters, was ranked from best (0.11) to worst (0.52) for olive oil, fish, fruits and vegetables, grains, and meat, in this order. Hcy levels showed the best response among all markers across all groups and food types. Our study shows significant differences between variables of the MDQI and Hcy levels compared to levels of folate and vitamin B12 in participants with medium-poor diet quality, as evaluated according to MDQI scores.

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