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Refugee or migrant? What corpora can tell

Author(s) -

Ylva Berglund Prytz

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

nordic journal of english studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.18

H-Index - 8

eISSN - 1654-6970

pISSN - 1502-7694

DOI - 10.35360/njes.361

Subject(s) - refugee , political science , field (mathematics) , english language , linguistics , order (exchange) , media studies , sociology , history , gender studies , library science , law , computer science , business , philosophy , mathematics , finance , pure mathematics

It has been suggested that there is a clear difference between the terms REFUGEE and MIGRANT (for example Edwards 2015). A migrant is someone who chooses to move in order to find work or a better life, while a refugee is forced to move because of threat to life or freedom. This study looks at how the two terms are used in British English today and explores what contemporary corpora can reveal about changes coinciding with the escalation of the European migrant crisis.

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