Migrant’s picnic this weekend at Tamaki Makaurau

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1. marty mars 1

   1 February 2019 at 9:33 am

   The new conservatives – the oxymoron that denigrates both individual words and ideals.

   Hope the migrant event goes really well.
2. rata 2

   1 February 2019 at 10:18 am

   I am confused.
   Surely the picnic at Myers park should be called the immigrants picnic?
   Why is it being called the migrants picnic?
   Negative stereotype of immigration perhaps?
   Interesting that both events are being held on the same day.
   Be interesting to know who shows up at each event
   and what traction they each receive.
   I wonder if any polies will show up?
   • te reo putake 2.1

     1 February 2019 at 3:56 pm

     They’re both similar words, rata. However migrant is more specifically associated these days with a forced departure for economic or political reasons. Or, to use another term, refugees.

     Or to put it another way, all people who change countries are immigrants, (and emigrants?) but those who have no choice but to leave the country of their birth are usually referred to as migrants.

     In the case of the picnic, it’s clearly pitched at refugees, who are form a small part of the tens of thousands who immigrate to NZ each year. And it looks like a fun day, so well worth supporting.
     • Mirabile Dictu 2.1.1

       2 February 2019 at 12:26 pm

       TRP

       Linking ‘migrant’ with “forced departure for economic or political reasons” only is not the best approach.

       Everyone who has come to NZ had a reason: Love, aimlessness, economic, political, social, health or whatever. Some were pushed out of their home or country, some were drawn here.

       I’m a migrant and I don’t fit your definition. In my work I come across many English and South Africans who call themselves “Ex-Pats”: they consider the word migrant demeaning: to them it denotes the non-white colour of the skin of a newly arrived person.

       Anyone who moves from one country to another is a migrant.
3. Joe C 3

   1 February 2019 at 11:56 am

   we’ve been involved a lot recently with migrant workers struggles, so migrant is how people refer to themselves these days. All welcome to the picnic from whatever tribe you’re in.
   • OnceWasTim 3.1

     1 February 2019 at 3:34 pm

     Indeed. So let’s hope Deborah Russell shows up maybe.
     Probably a little more PC and less awkward than if Iain or Chris made an appearance.
     I suspect there’s a process to be followed though in terms of who’ll eventually be seen
4. Mark 4

   1 February 2019 at 12:29 pm

   What a stupid fucking poster (that is Elliot Ikilei’s one).

   In the case of many many migrants, I reckon the answer would be yes (and even if not why the fuck should that matter anyway). I’m not a migrant – however some would assume I was one. An uncle on my mum’s side fought both Japanese and communists (he was Chinese nationalist official), and my uncle on my dad’s side was a grunt in the KMT army, dragooned at the age of 16 who again fought both Japanese and communists (although he became a communist sympathizer in later age).

   Particularly in the case of those who fought the Japanese (and the Germans) during WWII —-regardless of what army or country they served under, they also fought for New Zealand, and indeed the whole world to save it from fascism and the likes of these New Conservative tossers.
5. One Two 5

   1 February 2019 at 1:17 pm

   Still using the ‘H’ word…

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