Ricerc@Sapienza

This research is part of multilingual interdisciplinary research. It is a case study, synchronic and qualitative, whose central theme is the vulnerability of migrants. We proposed to examine the relational nature of this vulnerability using a trilingual corpus: French, Italian and Spanish. To do this, we have chosen the institutional discourse of national and international NGOs and operational humanitarian NGOs, about the political and humanitarian crisis that accompanied the arrival of the humanitarian ship Aquarius, responsible for survivors in June 2018. The analysis has allowed us to better understand the role of these institutions in humanitarian crises, the different levels of vulnerability of migrants, as well as the relational and evolving nature of this vulnerability. This analysis is done at the linguistic level by identifying the designation paradigm of this vulnerability, and at the communicative level by presenting the characteristics of the institutional discourse on this subject.