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Human Flow
2017 · Film · documentary · 140 min
Directed by Ai Weiwei
More than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war, the greatest displacement since World War II. Filmmaker Ai Weiwei examines the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Over the course of one year in 23 countries, Weiwei follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretch across the globe, including Afghanistan, France, Greece, Germany and Iraq.
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i can't speak for the situation in Slovenia - speaking from an US standpoint - 'illegal immigrant' puts the focus on the immigrant who is generally escaping one crappy situation for a better opportunity and generally doing the shit-work nobody else wants to do - the person is not illegal, they are undocumented (which is a misdemeanor offense in the US and generally means being deported) - our food production systems depend on these workers and those companies and this government do not want to be honest about that - notice that the employer is rarely if ever punished for knowingly hiring undocumented workers (like the US president for example) - by focusing on illegality it obscures the humanity of the person and paints the situation with a broad-brush that then allows US racists to extend this to anyone who is not white (we hear many stories from people of color of being told to 'go home' even though they were born here)
so maybe this clarifies a little while immigration may not be the best case for talking about 'politically-correct speech'?
i highly recommend Ai Wei Wei's documentary on refugees and migration, Human Flow