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’.
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...
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...
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...
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...
I’m an immigrant until I return to the country of my birth which I currently have no plans to do.
vero: unless you’re on a short- to medium-term posting on behalf of an organisation, you’re an immigrant. That’s sort of what I follow. I am an immigrant into France, but will I...
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...
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...
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...
The main difference to local yokels like me (ie those of us who are neither) is that those terms are very loaded, esp in English: if you’re brown you’re an immigrant and it’s a loa...
I think your definitions would be universally accepted Chris. What I object to - well "object is rather too strong an emotion - what I gently raise one eyebrow to, is when I call m...
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...
A policy shift announced Friday by US Citizenship and Immigration Services stands to alter the most common pathway to lawful permanent residence in the United States, requiring mos...
In 2014, Abhishek Abhyankar moved from Pune, India, to Blacksburg, Va., for graduate school. After getting his master’s degree, he made his way to Seattle, where he got a job, sett...
Posted on April 22, 2026 by Mike Baker Synthesized and compiled from the reporting and scholarship of George F. Will (The Washington Post), the Migration Policy Institute, the Pew...
Ancient_Mariner: and Germans are still not permitted. They are now, the Gesetz zur Modernisierung des Staatsangehörigkeitsrechts came in almost 2 years ago. France and the UK h...
Alan_Dargie: Sorry about introducing the tomb aspect I suppose it’s the ultimate form of integration
JaneJones: I think under current rules could then move to UK and eventually gain citizenship. I fear it’s very difficult unless the EU spouse has settled status and hasn’t been...
JaneJones: I think under current rules could then move to UK and eventually gain citizenship. I fear it’s very difficult unless the EU spouse has settled status and hasn’t been...
Immigration policy is often argued in abstract terms — statistics, ideals, and political talking points — but its real effects are felt most sharply at the local level.And while ot...
vero: France and the UK have allowed people born to mixed couples to have dual nationality It’s a similar situation in Spain, where my nephews have dual nationality, but my brot...
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