Since some years, chronicles got us accustomed to the dramatic phenomenon of landing, on our coasts, of migrants coming from the African shore of the Mediterranean sea, escaping from difficult situations. In addition to legal, economic, political and moral questions, the problem of their acceptance also raises a latent conflict of Identity/Otherness, as much important because of the cultural contrast between Us and The Others that it implies and its social consequences. From certain points of view, this phenomenon is not exceptional as it can appear in the chronicles. The ancient history of Europe – highlighted by glottological comparison, discovered in the 19th century – teaches us that the path of mankind was always, since prehistory, characterized by an uninterrupted and unrestrainable series of migrations of populations, and that each of the various solutions found to the unavoidable problem of the conflict between Us and The Others was the occasion which allowed the development of civilizations, when the event was experienced as a mediated encounter between cultures, or their disappearance, when the event become a contrast for mutual oppression. If we want to take into account these data, modern planning will have to move towards intercultural mediation, initiated and managed by the countries that are more affected by the phenomenon, especially Italy, but performed mainly in the territories that are the origin of migrations. In particular, it would be desirable that intercultural mediators, specifically trained in Italy, would play, in the countries where migrants converge and depart, the dual role of intercultural filter and trainers of local intercultural mediators, with whom they could work synergistically to make acceptance and mutual protection sustainable.

Noi e gli Altri nel mondo euro-mediterraneo. Una storia antica e vicende recenti

TORRICELLI, Patrizia
2014-01-01

Abstract

Since some years, chronicles got us accustomed to the dramatic phenomenon of landing, on our coasts, of migrants coming from the African shore of the Mediterranean sea, escaping from difficult situations. In addition to legal, economic, political and moral questions, the problem of their acceptance also raises a latent conflict of Identity/Otherness, as much important because of the cultural contrast between Us and The Others that it implies and its social consequences. From certain points of view, this phenomenon is not exceptional as it can appear in the chronicles. The ancient history of Europe – highlighted by glottological comparison, discovered in the 19th century – teaches us that the path of mankind was always, since prehistory, characterized by an uninterrupted and unrestrainable series of migrations of populations, and that each of the various solutions found to the unavoidable problem of the conflict between Us and The Others was the occasion which allowed the development of civilizations, when the event was experienced as a mediated encounter between cultures, or their disappearance, when the event become a contrast for mutual oppression. If we want to take into account these data, modern planning will have to move towards intercultural mediation, initiated and managed by the countries that are more affected by the phenomenon, especially Italy, but performed mainly in the territories that are the origin of migrations. In particular, it would be desirable that intercultural mediators, specifically trained in Italy, would play, in the countries where migrants converge and depart, the dual role of intercultural filter and trainers of local intercultural mediators, with whom they could work synergistically to make acceptance and mutual protection sustainable.
2014
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