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What’s wrong with “a bunch of migrants”? Looking at the linguistic evidence
This week at Prime Minister’s Questions, David Cameron used the term “a bunch of migrants” to describe refugees at a camp in Calais. He was subsequently criticised by Labour MPs and members of the general public on Twitter, and the story was reported on in mainstream newspapers like the Guardian and the Telegraph. Critics described…
CASS Briefings
CASS: Briefings is a series of short, quick reads on the work being done at the ESRC/CASS research centre at Lancaster University, UK.