Why the language we use to talk about refugees matters so much
–-> cet article date de juin 2015... je le remets sur seenthis car je l’ai lu plus attentivement, et du coup, je mets en évidence certains passages (et mots-clé).
In an interview with British news station ITV on Thursday, David Cameron told viewers that the French port of Calais was safe and secure, despite a “#swarm” of migrants trying to gain access to Britain. Rival politicians soon rushed to criticize the British prime minister’s language: Even Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-immigration UKIP party, jumped in to say he was not “seeking to use language like that” (though he has in the past).
Cameron clearly chose his words poorly. As Lisa Doyle, head of advocacy for the Refugee Council puts it, the use of the word swarm was “dehumanizing” – migrants are not insects. It was also badly timed, coming as France deployed riot police to Calais after a Sudanese man became the ninth person in less than two months to die while trying to enter the Channel Tunnel, an underground train line that runs from France to Britain.
The way we talk about migrants in turn influences the way we deal with them, with sometimes worrying consequences.
When considering the 60 million or so people currently displaced from their home around the world, certain words rankle experts more than others. “It makes no more sense to call someone an ’illegal migrant’ than an ’illegal person,’” Human Rights Watch’s Bill Frelick wrote last year. The repeated use of the word “boat people” to describe people using boats to migrate over the Mediterranean or across South East Asian waters presents similar issues.
“We don’t call middle-class Europeans who take regular holidays abroad ’#EasyJet_people,’ or the super-rich of Monaco ’#yacht_people,’” Daniel Trilling, editor of the New Humanist, told me.
How people are labelled has important implications. Whether people should be called economic migrants or asylum seekers matters a great deal in the country they arrive in, where it could affect their legal status as they try to stay in the country. It also matters in the countries where these people originated from. Eritrea, for example, has repeatedly denied that the thousands of people leaving the country are leaving because of political pressure, instead insisting that they have headed abroad in search of higher wages. Other countries make similar arguments: In May, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that the migrants leaving her country were “fortune-seekers” and “mentally sick.” The message behind such a message was clear: It’s their fault, not ours.
There are worries that even “migrant,” perhaps the broadest and most neutral term we have, could become politicized.
Those living in the migrant camps near #Calais, nicknamed “the #jungle,” seem to understand this well themselves. “It’s easier to leave us living like this if you say we are bad people, not human," Adil, a 24-year-old from Sudan, told the Guardian.
►https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/07/30/why-the-language-we-use-to-talk-about-refugees-matters-so-much
#langage #vocabulaire #terminologie #mots #réfugiés #asile #migrations #essaim #invasion #afflux #déshumanisation #insectes #expatriés #expats #illégal #migrant_illégal #boat_people #migrants_économiques
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October 2016 test: 103 #Perdix #micro-drones launched from three F/A-18 Super Hornets, demonstrated advanced #swarm behaviors such as collective decision-making, adaptive formation flying, and self-healing. To be produced in batches of 1000.
▻https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/Article/1044811/department-of-defense-announces-successful-micro-drone-demonstration #drones #USA #DoD
Commentary: Here’s how the U.S. Navy will defeat Iran’s speedboats | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-navy-iran-commentary-idUSKCN1151SB
And that’s not all. In 2014, the U.S. Navy fitted a new, large laser gun to the amphibious ship USS Ponce, which is permanently stationed in the Persian Gulf, where it acts as an at-sea base for helicopters, small boats and special operations forces. Big, slow and otherwise lightly armed, Ponce was uniquely vulnerable to the guard corps boat swarms.
The so-called #Laser_Weapon_System , aimed by an operator holding a video-game-style controller, shoots a 30-kilowatt laser over a distance of several miles. As #LaWS doesn’t fire conventional missiles or bullets, instead drawing power from a generator, it essentially never runs out of ammunition. Perfect for wiping out a swarm.
The laser system is a one-off weapon – and, at $40 million, it didn’t come cheap. But having proved that a laser can work in real-world conditions, the Navy is planning to build more and bigger lasers and, potentially, outfit all its front-line warships with them. If that happens, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps swarms might finally meet their match.
]]>Mango: Git completely decentralised
#Git is a distributed (and soon decentralised) versioning or change tracking system, mostly used for managing software source code.
Welcome #Mango, which combines #Ethereum with IPFS or Swarm as a backend for Git. [it can therefore replace #Github]
▻https://medium.com/@alexberegszaszi/mango-git-completely-decentralised-7aef8bcbcfe6
]]>Review: #swarmwise – The Tactical Manual to Changing the World « Public Intelligence Blog
▻http://www.phibetaiota.net/2013/07/review-swarmwise-the-tactical-manual-to-changing-the-world
Tags : swarmwise #parti-pirate #falkvinge
]]>Pouvons-nous comprendre “la sagesse des foules” si nous ne savons pas comment fonctionnent les comportements collectifs ?
▻http://www.internetactu.net/2013/04/09/pouvons-nous-comprendre-la-sagesse-des-foules-si-nous-ne-savons-pas-co
Le rôle fondamental des meutes, des essaims, des foules, est, depuis ses débuts, le paradigme (certains diraient le mythe) fondateur de l’internet. Aussi n’est-il pas étonnant que les articles sur les intelligences collectives décentralisées se renouvellent souvent dans mon (bientôt défunt) Google Reader. Mais tout de même, certaines semaines sont plus riches que d’autres. Ces derniers jours, on a (...)
]]>Méthodes agiles : la conception logicielle appliquée au monde physique | Fabien Eychenne
►http://www.internetactu.net/2012/10/31/methodes-agiles-la-conception-logicielle-appliquee-au-monde-physique
Depuis une quinzaine d’années, la majorité des développements de logiciels s’appuie sur des méthodes dites “agiles”. Sous cette bannière se regroupent plusieurs méthodes basées sur un développement itératif et incrémental, dans lequel la recherche de solutions aux problèmes rencontrés s’appuie sur la collaboration de pair à pair. Elle promeut des réponses rapides et flexibles, une planification des tâches adaptatives dans…
#économie #bidouillabilité #coopération #créativité #design #do_it_yourself #fabrication_personnelle #intelligence_collective #open_innovation #open_source #Participation #produire_autrement #refaire #savoir-faire #swarming
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