Migration Newspeak

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This page is somewhere to collect words and terms related to migration and contrast them with their official alternatives (inoffensive euphemisms), often because they are politically unsuitable or offensive or, simply, to conceal the authorities' crimes and racist agengas.


To add an entry, click the edit button to the right and add a row in the alphabetically right place by writing |- |Oldspeak word |Newspeak word |Notes, each on a seperate line, replacing these words with your stuff.


Oldspeak Newspeak Notes
Migrant Economic migrant, illegal migrant, bogus asylum seeker etc.
Refugee Asylum seeker, failed or refused asylum seeker etc.
Immigration prison Detention centre, Immigration Removal or Reception Centre (IRC) etc.
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