[Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin] notes how the language used about slaves has transferred to asylum seekers.
“This thing that we hear often, ‘oh, they’re just economic migrants, they’re not real asylum seekers.’ Yeah, I remind the British that they were economic migrants when they went all over the world [with the empire]’”.
Spot on.
#AsylumSeekers #Immigration #Migrants #SmallBoats #Calais
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dover-bishop-immigration-small-boats-france-b2674015.html
“This thing that we hear often, ‘oh, they’re just economic migrants, they’re not real asylum seekers.’ Yeah, I remind the British that they were economic migrants when they went all over the world [with the empire]’”.
Spot on.
#AsylumSeekers #Immigration #Migrants #SmallBoats #Calais
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dover-bishop-immigration-small-boats-france-b2674015.html
Dover Bishop warns giving money to France to tackle small boats crisis is ‘killing people’
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