illegal sojourners

[Victor Steinbok]

  It is interesting what kind of contortions we have to through to
define certain populations. Those who don't care to offend start with
"illegals" (or worse). Those who do, went from "illegal immigrants" to
"illegal aliens" (presumably not to discriminate against interplanetary
vagabonds) to "undocumented aliens", etc. Don't tell Lou Dobbs, but,
apparently, South Korean Anglo press refers to people belonging to a
similar group as "illegal sojourners"--although the body of the article
uses "unregistered foreign nationals ".

http://bit.ly/9j4TOh
Middle school open to illegal sojourners' children

Perhaps it's not an official term but something lost in translation...

     VS-)

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