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Chitra Nagarajan

In the beginning was the word

Areport published this month by Oxford University’s Migration Observatory examined 43 million words written about migrants and migration in 20 of Britain’s main national daily and…

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We need to change the very language we use to talk about immigrants

An immigrant can no more be "illegal" than a teacher or a politician. To pretend otherwise dehumanises them, writes…

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