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Episode 185: Nativism in Media (Part II) - The Artificial Cold War Distinction Between 'Migrants' and 'Refugees'

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The No Fault of Their Own Framing

The idea of deserving versus undeserving categories of immigrants is seen in our media constantly, same as the refugee versus migrant dichotomy. The no fault of their own framing is pretty clever and convenient in the sense that it conveys compassion for young immigrants without interrogating the need for their parents or older brothers and sisters to leave their homes. But when you do these kind of deserved and underserved dichotomies, you do begin to reinforce the premise that the vast, vast, vast majority of people who actually are migrants have a common that there's sort of lawbreakers. And that itself has its own ideological downside for obvious reasons.

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