Framing --- The gist, I think, comes in the following sentence on framing - as Jean-Michel noted, it is about how we structure the values of an argument rather than the specific words. So 'language' here is more about justiciations and values. I think, in the humanitarian space, of the temptation of some actors to use metaphors of a flood or other uncontrolled natural hazard to describe refugees - perhaps the aim is to get more public attention, but the values perpetuated are of an uncontrollable movement.

Source author: Murdoch Stephens murdoch.stephens@redcross.org.nz