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dc.contributor.authorDEBONO, Daniela
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-03T15:39:07Z
dc.date.available2018-05-03T15:39:07Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn1028-3625
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/53845
dc.description.abstractHospitality and hospitality-laden language feature highly amongst people working in or around structures of first reception in Italy and Malta at the European Union external border. This is peculiar because hospitality rarely features at first reception which is part of the state’s border system. Characteristically security issues are prioritised, and the first reception system is managed by security agents of the state, 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 for having crossed the border without authorisation, and often, without identification. Drawing on long term and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in Italy and Malta, this paper 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 these two countries. 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 conceptualised as a Laclauian empty signifier, and therefore a locus of power which is what should be targeted by political groups seeking change.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUI RSCASen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2018/22en
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGlobal Governance Programme-302en
dc.relation.ispartofseries[European, Transnational and Global Governance]en
dc.relation.ispartofseries[Cultural Pluralism]en
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://hdl.handle.net/1814/63165
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.subjectFirst receptionen
dc.subjectHospitalityen
dc.subjectItalyen
dc.subjectMaltaen
dc.subjectMigrantsen
dc.subject.otherAsylum and refugees
dc.subject.otherMigration
dc.subject.otherCitizenship
dc.subject.otherEuropean governance
dc.subject.otherEuropean identities and culture
dc.titlePlastic hospitality : the empty signifier of the EU's first reception system in the Mediterraneanen
dc.typeWorking Paperen


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