Refugee or migrant? What corpora can tell

Authors

  • Ylva Berglund Prytz

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35360/njes.361

Keywords:

migration, refugee, corpus, Present-day English, British National Corpus, Oxford English Corpus

Abstract

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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Published

2016-06-22

How to Cite

Berglund Prytz, Y. (2016). Refugee or migrant? What corpora can tell. Nordic Journal of English Studies, 15(2), 47–61. https://doi.org/10.35360/njes.361

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2016)

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