Welcoming, beautiful word, and the head of state does well to remember that it is a kind of duty provided for by the very nature of the constitutional charter. Mattarella does his job, it is the value compass of the Republic. But when even this word splits into the underlying semantics, problems arise.
Governing the Res publica, or public affairs, is more complex when we move from idealism to the concreteness of numbers and conflicts. When it comes to immigration, the word welcome falls into many different colors. The ideological ones, of the left and Catholics, for whom it just has to be, as a kind of absolute. And then there is the xenophobic or paranoid view of borders-or simply pragmatic. In practice, precisely, those who administer public affairs know very well that if more people arrive in a system, the receiving society, for a wide variety of reasons than can really be accommodated, it plunges into chaos. After all, the real semantics of welcoming is to integrate a person into the system, on an employment and cultural level. Instead, we see tens of thousands of individuals who have been welcomed technically, but not in the true sense of the word.
Purity of speech and charter theorists don’t give a damn about the consequences, but just going to talk to mayors already to hear about the problems they have with whole chunks of their territory out of control can be shocking. In this context, talking about migrants brought to a de-localized (a well-known industry word) reception center as if they were de-ported is incorrect. The situation is complex and humanitarian compliance must be monitored, but across Europe rulers of the left and right are looking with curiosity at this Melonian experiment. If it works it opens up a method. Fewer people will be enticed to come indiscriminately to a country, and many people, if it is right, will be repatriated. The magic recipe in such an impregnable historical issue is not there, however, the important thing is not to get lost in the supposed purity of things. After all, purity leads to death, said a gentleman named Sartre.
The article The welcome that must welcome comes from TheNewyorker.
