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SUMMARY:Challenging the fact-free rhetoric
DESCRIPTION:This century has seen an increase in nationalist leaders and 
 parties in government. Such leaders and parties often use anti-immigrant
  rhetoric as a means to position themselves or their parties. Examples o
 f such rhetoric can be found all over the world. At one end of the scale
 \, leaders like Viktor Orban in Hungary and Donald Trump in the United S
 tates are voicing extreme anti-refugee positions in which refugees are c
 onsistently referred to as ‘immigrants’ and are portrayed as raping\, th
 ieving hordes who will force their religious views onto an unsuspecting 
 host society. At the other end of the scale is the more creeping languag
 e used in the Brexit referendum of ‘taking back control over our soverei
 gn borders’ and the emergence of a new political party in South Africa d
 emanding the expulsion of all immigrants as ‘they take our jobs’. Often 
 the facts are diametrically opposite from the ‘fake news’ voiced by nati
 onalist movements. This type of rhetoric is slowly becoming more mainstr
 eam as other participants in the political or civic arena are taking on 
 the frame pushed by the nationalist agenda.\n\nThis panel examines what 
 the role is of legal practitioners in various jurisdictions\, especially
  those working in immigration or human rights law\, to counter such fact
 -free rhetoric. Should legal practitioners quietly get on with their job
 s and keep the politics out of their jobs as much as possible?  Or is it
  useful to insistently vocalise dissent? If so\, what do we need in our 
 toolbox? Should one challenge the facts and ignore the underlying sentim
 ents\, or address those sentiments too? Is a human rights agenda the bes
 t way to counter this rhetoric?
LOCATION:Room 327 B\, Floor 3
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