JOUB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Michael Billig, Economic Migrant, Humanitarian Crisis
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Individual human being mass (flood, tsunami, wave, horde, swarm) Immigration (process: migration, colonization, settlement, arrival, entry, relocation, crossing borders, asylum, humanitarian crisis. Immigrant (individual: foreigner, refugee, settler, migrant, outsider, diaspora, expatriate, expat, alien, transiting, economic migrants, political refugee, people = immigrant, negative connotations: o. Immigrate (action: settle, move, relocate, migrate, arrive, displaced, flee, resettle, defect, colonize, smuggle themselves, entering irregularly. Like there is a certain type of canadian, very exclusive. The idea that though canada is made up of immigrants, in those immigrants some a more. Every time a broadcaster uses the words we, they, them is divisive language. When there is something about a terror attack the use of we" always comes up: will always pit one against the other (nationality, identity etc. , we vs. them (them who are also part of we) Banal nationalism" - the idea of this side versus that side of our nationality (michael.
