What is a migrant?
Foreigner – Immigrant – Emigrant – Expatriate – Stateless – Undocumented – Illegal immigrant – Refugee – Asylum-seeker – Outcast – Exile – Harraga – Displaced – Immigrant background – Of immigrant origin – Beur –… All these words express and designate the “Other”, the one arriving, the one living here. As is the case when numbers guide our thinking, words sort the desirable from the undesirable. Words express the world, convey/betray how it is perceived, create the foundations for hospitalities or suspicions.