The sword metaphor

This essay try to analyze the use of the word “migrant” in the EU Commission New Pact on Migration and Asylum in the light of Simmel‟s concept of foreigner and Fanon‟s one of depersonalization. The hypothesis is that the use of the word “migrant” is functional to a progressive strategy of erasing migrant individualities and their stories to facilitate an increasing closure of the EU and its Member States to any new arrivals.

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In the cultural setting of incorporating cultural heritage to draw global appeal, both films not only manifest a mentality of cultural relocation to the lost glory of ancient China, but also enrich cultural presentation of sensations in wuxia movies. Such strategy explains how wuxia films with Chinese elements embarked on the global stage and attracted the Western exoticized gaze.

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