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A Refugee by Any Other Name

Thursday, September 08, 2005

George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee
and
Geoffrey Nunberg, researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University, consulting professor in the Stanford Department of Linguistics, commentator, and author, Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Controversial Times (PublicAffairs,2004)
-on the debate over the use of the word "refugees" to refer to those displaced by Hurricane Katrina

» The International Rescue Committee
» Geoffrey Nunberg (Stanford University)

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