The Migrant Invasion: Love Speech against Hate Speech and the Violation of Language Rights

In the first part of this paper, I intend to show commonalities in migrants’ representations, pertaining the first and second level mentioned above, in the Italian and British press, while in the second and final part, I will focus on how Western narratives, purposely created and reinforced by mainstream media, have a bearing on migrants’ language rights. More precisely, I am going to do so from a translation approach showing the consequences of the lack of visibility of language(s) and translation practices, particularly in contexts of inequality and injustice, such as migration laws and asylum procedures.