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How displaced people are made into ‘migrants’
2017, under the centre-left government, of ‘social useful activities’ (in other words, workfare) on asylum 171 How media and conflicts make migrants seekers as a contribution owed to the receiving society. This move has been denounced by many NGOs and by migrants themselves. Our participants saw this as a morally dubious obligation to accept unpaid labour in order to show gratefulness and gain acceptance: They [the operators of the centre] said we have to show our willingness to integrate and work as volunteers to clean streets and buildings. So, they said, we
