INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Economic Migrant, European Migrant Crisis, Unaccompanied Minors
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It"s not a crime to cross the border without papers, it"s just administratively not good. Liquid" language: flows, waves, tides, trickling, streaming, swelling, pouring, seeping, pooling, containing . migrants: portrayed as anonymous threatening mass no individuality. Migrants have rights: right to enter and stay and right to vote are reserved for citizens, all other rights are for everyone, not necessarily a right to same government services, right to equality: distinctions must be justified. Human rights speech has little traction: as long as migrants wont vote and participate in the public debates, fighting fantasies will be difficult, see how women fought sexist stereotypes, haidt. Need to hear migrants voice to bring society into check: contemporary democracies: representation + human rights + rule of law, human rights are best defended by holders: women, indigenous peoples. Lgbtq, people with disability: basic idea: empowerment of migrants, outside political stage, migrants" voice must be carried by: