{"id":4252,"date":"2017-07-04T18:36:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T18:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/en\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2017-11-13T12:14:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T10:14:56","slug":"migrants-and-the-importance-of-language-in-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/en\/2017\/07\/04\/migrants-and-the-importance-of-language-in-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrants and the importance of language in the media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It is impossible to deny the importance language has on the media, as one term or another will lead to a different representation of reality and will change the way we perceive the news we read. Immigrants, refugees, foreigners\u2026 are usually at the centre of this debate, as the way they are depicted is often charged of political intentions. For this reason, we are recovering this article by The Guardian on the media\u2019s treatment of migrants and refugees. Because, sadly, since its publication, nothing has improved, <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/finsbury-park-attack-far-right-extremist-rise-year-statistics-prevent-terrorism-scheme-referrals-a7798231.html\"><strong>right-wing movements and xenophobic attacks<\/strong><\/a><strong> on Europe continue to increase, as does the <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/jun\/03\/mediterranean-refugees-migrants-deaths\"><strong>number of deaths in the Mediterranean Sea<\/strong><\/a><strong>. This really proves our need for a new approach towards these situations<em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"post-gallery cboxElement\" href=\"http:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4255\" src=\"http:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_11-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"Migrants_language_media_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_11-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_11.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do the following people have in common: Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England; the former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen; Nigel Farage\u2019s wife, Kirsten; Chelsea\u2019s new striker, Pedro; and Sir Bradley Wiggins?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, they are all migrants \u2013 or, if you prefer, immigrants. Having moved to the UK to further their careers, some of them might perhaps be described as \u201ceconomic migrants\u201d. Except that this term is reserved exclusively by politicians and the media to describe people who \u2013 unlike bankers or sports stars \u2013 they don\u2019t like: people who, in the words of our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2015\/aug\/09\/african-migrants-threaten-eu-standard-living-philip-hammond\">foreign secretary, are \u201cmarauding\u201d across Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>People from the UK moving abroad to pursue their career or financial interests, meanwhile, are \u201cexpats\u201d, never emigrants or migrants.<\/p>\n<p>The language we hear in what passes for a national conversation on migration has become as debased as most of the arguments, until the very word \u201cmigrants\u201d is toxic, used to frighten us by conjuring up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2015\/jul\/30\/david-cameron-migrant-swarm-language-condemned\">images of a \u201cswarm\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(as David Cameron put it) massing at our borders, threatening our way of life.<\/p>\n<p>As Prof Alexander Betts, director of the refugee studies centre at Oxford University, says: \u201cWords that convey an exaggerated sense of threat can fuel anti-immigration sentiment and a climate of intolerance and xenophobia.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWords that convey an exaggerated sense of threat can fuel anti-immigration sentiment and a climate of intolerance and xenophobia.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing new in this. Fifteen years ago the Conservatives were getting worked up about \u201cbogus asylum seekers\u201d. This was nonsense: you are either an asylum seeker or you aren\u2019t. But that wasn\u2019t the point \u2013 which was, rather than to demonstrate the traditional British values of compassion and fairness to those seeking refuge here, to denigrate them for crude political purposes.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"post-gallery cboxElement\" href=\"http:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4257\" src=\"http:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_21-1024x677.jpg\" alt=\"Migrants_language_media_2\" width=\"620\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_21-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_21-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_21-620x410.jpg 620w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_21-192x128.jpg 192w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_21-940x622.jpg 940w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_21.jpg 1243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The need for a change in the media<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the background against which Al Jazeera English has announced\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/blogs\/editors-blog\/2015\/08\/al-jazeera-mediterranean-migrants-150820082226309.html\">it will no longer use the word \u201cmigrants\u201d<\/a>\u00a0but \u201crefugees\u201d, in the context of desperate people trying to enter Europe by the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcaster\u2019s online editor, Barry Malone, says: \u201cIt is not hundreds of people who drown when a boat goes down in the Mediterranean, nor even hundreds of refugees. It is hundreds of migrants. The umbrella term migrant is no longer fit for purpose when it comes to describing the horror unfolding in the Mediterranean \u2026 Migrant is a word that strips suffering people of voice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/newspapers\">Newspapers<\/a>\u00a0such as the Guardian have been using \u201cmigrant\u201d in recent years in part because something similar happened to the word \u201cimmigrant\u201d, when it became increasingly used by racists to mean something like \u201ca black person in Britain who should go back home\u201d. In fact \u201cimmigrate\u201d simply means to arrive in a country, as \u201cemigrate\u201d means to leave one. But it\u2019s hard to use the former in a neutral context because it has become so loaded, along with phrases such as \u201csecond-generation immigrant\u201d, an offensive way to refer to their children.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMigrant is a word that strips suffering people of voice.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Journalists, like politicians, prefer to keep a story simple, assuming readers and voters have a short attention span. Labels such as \u201cmigrants\u201d, however, deny people their humanity, and somewhere in this sorry saga we are losing sight of the fact they are people. So when the Express used the headline \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/600739\/Britain-migrants-eight-million\">Eight million migrants live in UK<\/a>\u201d this week I\u2019m not absolutely sure who they were referring to, or whether the figure is accurate, and I don\u2019t think they are either. But it doesn\u2019t really matter because the idea is to alarm, not inform, the public and propagate an agenda that says: migrants = bad; (and then to blame the European Union).<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"post-gallery cboxElement\" href=\"http:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4259\" src=\"http:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_31-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Migrants_language_media_3\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_31-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_31-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_31-620x349.jpg 620w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_31-940x529.jpg 940w, https:\/\/twistislamophobia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Migrants_language_media_31.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dehumanizing an international crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been canvassing opinion among Guardian colleagues to assess the language we use when writing about this international crisis. One colleague who has been reporting extensively on the situation in Calais says: \u201cThe conclusion I came to was, wherever possible, to describe those in the camp as \u2018people\u2019 initially, with an extended phrase along the lines of \u2018more than 3,000 people who have fled war, poverty or persecution beyond Europe\u2019s borders \u2026\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But it\u2019s hard to use the term \u201cimmigrant\u201d in a neutral context because it has become so loaded, along with phrases such as \u201csecond-generation immigrant\u201d, an offensive way to refer to their children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another journalist says: \u201cThey are people \u2013 men, women and children, fathers and mothers, teachers and engineers, just like us \u2013 except they come from Syria, Eritrea, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Why not just call them \u2018people\u2019, then list any other information we know that is relevant?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We deserve better from our politicians and press than scare stories about hordes of migrants laying siege to the UK. Such language not only plays to people\u2019s fears, it is far from accurate. The vast majority come into the country legally. The United Nations high commissioner for refugees considers people at Calais at the very least \u201cpeople of concern\u201d \u2013 vulnerable individuals likely to have a claim for asylum. Globally\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2015\/jun\/18\/59m-people-displaced-war-violence-persecution-says-un\">nearly 60 million people have been forcibly displaced<\/a>. It\u2019s fair to say that most of them are not in it to take advantage of the British benefits system.<\/p>\n<p>You will still see the word \u201cmigrants\u201d or \u201cmigration\u201d in the Guardian as a general expression to cover people who for whatever reason have moved, or are moving, from the country of which they are nationals to another. But \u201crefugees\u201d, \u201cdisplaced people\u201d and \u201casylum seekers\u201d, all of which have clear definitions, are more useful and accurate terms than a catch-all label like \u201cmigrants\u201d, and we should use them wherever possible.<\/p>\n<p>Politically charged expressions such as \u201ceconomic migrants\u201d, \u201cgenuine refugees\u201d or \u201cillegal asylum seekers\u201d should have no part in our coverage. This is a story about humanity. Reporting it should be humane as well as accurate. Sadly, most of what we hear and read about \u201cmigrants\u201d is neither.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/aug\/28\/migrants-people-refugees-humanity\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is impossible to deny the importance language has on the media, as one term or another will lead to a different representation of reality and will change the way we perceive the news we read. Immigrants, refugees, foreigners\u2026 are usually at the centre of this debate, as the way they are depicted is often charged of political intentions. For this reason, we are recovering this article by The Guardian on the media\u2019s treatment of migrants and refugees. Because, sadly, since its publication, nothing has improved, right-wing movements and xenophobic attacks on Europe continue to increase, as does the number of deaths in the Mediterranean Sea. This really proves our need for a new approach towards these situations. What do the following people have in common: Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England; the former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen; Nigel Farage\u2019s wife, Kirsten; Chelsea\u2019s new striker, Pedro; and Sir Bradley Wiggins? Yes, they are all migrants \u2013 or, if you prefer, immigrants. Having moved to the UK to further their careers, some of them might perhaps be described as \u201ceconomic migrants\u201d. 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Immigrants, refugees, foreigners\u2026 are usually at the centre of this debate, as the way they are depicted is often charged of political intentions. For this reason, we are recovering this article by The Guardian on the media\u2019s treatment of migrants and refugees. Because, sadly, since its publication, nothing has improved, right-wing movements and xenophobic attacks on Europe continue to increase, as does the number of deaths in the Mediterranean Sea. This really proves our need for a new approach towards these situations. What do the following people have in common: Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England; the former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen; Nigel Farage\u2019s wife, Kirsten; Chelsea\u2019s new striker, Pedro; and Sir Bradley Wiggins? Yes, they are all migrants \u2013 or, if you prefer, immigrants. Having moved to the UK to further their careers, some of them might perhaps be described as \u201ceconomic migrants\u201d. 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