Nu er det slut med illegal immigration

For en konference i Algier har besluttet at journalister i 15 lande skal ophøre med racistisk og xenophobisk terminologi.

Så nu skal illegal immigration hedde ‘irregulær immigration’.

Mediterranean press agencies said no to the use of “racist and xenophobic terminology” when covering issues such as illegal immigration and terrorism, as they signed the ‘Algiers Declaration’, to promote a ‘careful and appropriate use of terminology’. In the Declaration, signed today during the 18th meeting of the Alliance of Mediterranean News Agencies (AMAN) in Algiers, 15 press agencies from the northern and southern shores of the Mediterranean agreed to cover the issue of immigration “with great care, taking into account all aspects of this human tragedy and respecting human rights”. “Considering the impact of the media on public opinion and in particular the impact of press agencies”, said the director of the Algerian APS, Nacher Mehal, who takes over from Portugal’s José Manuel Barroso (Lusa) as president of AMAN, “it is our duty to choose the appropriate terminology, taking into account the need to respect human rights”. Musette Mohamed Sahid, researcher at the Algerian Economic Development Centre, said yesterday, during a conference on immigration that we must promote “the creation of the concept of irregular immigration, instead of clandestine, illegal or simply ’sans papier’”. (ANSAmed).

Det er vel kun et spørgsmål om tid, før det bare skal hedde immigration?