Argumentative metaphors ("Fortress Europe", "Sieve Europe", "Tsunami"). Reread Metaphors we live by, by Lakoff and Johnson (1980). The role of mega-metaphors (or "megaphors") in migration discourse: naturalistic models (fluid mechanics, organic metaphor, the country as a family, the postulate of equilibrium), models of confrontation (war, game, market, theater, tribunal, contract, rite and belief...), models of selection in a finite world (castle, Malthusian banquet, "full boat", sharing the cake) and other arguments about "surplus" populations. The argument of finite, countable and saturated "carrying capacities".
A general reflection on the use of "megaphors" in scientific language and public debate: to explain or to "transplicate"?
