Refugees Not Migrants (or Human-beings not Labels*)
When another's border is opaque, windows blocked with the coagulated death of hopeful escapees, reinforcing our borders is a reinforcement of that death. When political concern prioritises the comfort of British holiday-makers over the survival and humanity of an other, we commit atrocities. But we want, need our distractions, excuses to turn our heads so Cameron, please don't mention refugees. When he speaks of 'illegal migrants' to refer to people who face death at home and are cleaved from their soil, face death on their own borders and burrow beneath detection, face death on the M editerranean praying to stay buoyant through squalls and over sharks, face imprisonment in Europe and attempt to assimilate as they climb north, face death in the dysentery of the glass-ceiling-camp of Calais and wait and wait not allowed to move forward or turn back, he knows he speaks of refugees and he lies. ...