Expat or immigrant?
The nouns don’t worry me much, but I’ll go to my grave insisting that there’s only one verb and it is ‘emigrate’.
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The nouns don’t worry me much, but I’ll go to my grave insisting that there’s only one verb and it is ‘emigrate’.
Irishman decided to live in France, I am an immigrant and have zero issues being labelled as such. The locals don’t mind me particularly as I spend my UK earnings in their local ec...
My personal set of definitions, FWIW: Migrant - somebody who has left their place of origin and who is on the way to somewhere else. Expatriate (“ex-pat”) - somebody who has left t...
Which European countries are losing the most native-born residents? Explore the migration trends reshaping Europe’s demographic future.
Biff: there’s only one verb and it is ‘emigrate’. Depends on the direction I think. As I understand it, you emigrate from somewhere but immigrate to somewhere. Hence why the fo...
For me an immigrant is probably someone who has moved to another country to find a better life financially or to escape war or political problems in their country of origen. An exp...
[GroundUp] Hundreds more immigrants left from Cape Town on buses, leaving the repatriation site in Epping empty by Monday night.
Some people on SF get rather pedantic about how the words “expat” and “immigrant” are used. Because of my work, I always worked in foreign countries. I was always referred to as an...
ESRI migration
More foreigners are leaving Germany than at any point in the last 15 years. We spoke to recent emigrants about why they've decided to pack up and move out.
I think expat is seem as pejorative to those who have deliberately chosen to settle in France (or a different country from their origin). An expat is an individual intentionally li...
We would like to hear from people who have emigrated - or are considering doing so – due to rising anti-migration sentiment or policiesThe Unite the Kingdom march attracted tens o...
Well, I am definitely an immigrant and will remain here 'till death because I have already bought the plot and if I go to Blighty to die I will be unable to reclaim my half of the...
I’m an immigrant until I return to the country of my birth which I currently have no plans to do.
120,640 Canadians emigrated to other countries in 2025, surpassing the previous high from the year prior.
Those three women saw it every morning …
captainendeavour: Dubonnet That’s a word I’ve not seen for a long time…
Sense of loss of family acute in the letters of Irish emigrants, but there was hope, too, in the New World.
Alan_Dargie: Sorry about introducing the tomb aspect I suppose it’s the ultimate form of integration
Margaret McCarthy sailed from Liverpool on 7th September 1849 on the Columbus and arrived in New York on 22nd October. She settled in New York.
Canadians continue to flee in record volumes, in a trend that’s picking up, not plateauing. Statistics Canada (StatCan) data shows emigration—when citizens or permanent residents m...
[GroundUp] 38,000 people have quit the country via Musina since the wave of xenophobia started
[GroundUp] "I keep asking myself, 'Where is Ubuntu?"' says landlord
Arcalia: trying to flambé I did [almost] a week washing up at The Jack Straw’s Castle, the large restaurant/pub opposite the pond at the top of the hill overlooking Hampstead He...
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