Being called a "migrant" usually indicates that I am a stranger, a foreigner, and socially and culturally different from the so-called host community.
Is this view of me intended to maintain or create a border between those who call others "migrants" and myself?
Isn’t it strange how some people are called "migrants" and others "citizens"? What on earth are we talking about?
I find that this labelling ignores a very human reality: that we are all migrants; to varying degrees, of course, but we are all migrants, just as we are all human beings.
In fact, I think that those who unjustifiably consider me a "migrant" don’t realise that they too are migrants. They are anonymous migrants who have not yet opened the door that will lead them to their migrant being.
Gilbert
