Expat or immigrant?
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...
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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...
Immigration over the period 2014-2023 may have accounted for a large proportion of the average real rent increase.
Which European countries are losing the most native-born residents? Explore the migration trends reshaping Europe’s demographic future.
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...
See which OECD countries saw the biggest changes in permanent immigration between 2019 and 2024, from Poland's surge to Colombia's decline.
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...
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’.
Since the Eisenhower administration, the U.S. hasn’t collected comprehensive statistics on the number of citizens leaving. Yet data on residence permits, foreign home purchases, st...
I’m an immigrant until I return to the country of my birth which I currently have no plans to do.
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...
But if you were born German without connection with another country, would dual nationality be possible?
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...
Ancient_Mariner: There are many reasons why someone might not want to take on a different nationality Possibly the main one in places where this is comparatively easy (unlike fo...
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...
At the peak, the year to March 2023, almost 1.5m immigrants came. The Office for National Statistics thinks that far fewer people left, so net migration amounted to 944,000. …Net m...
It’s only been the last 20 years or so that Austrians could have dual nationality, and Germans are still not permitted.
Remote work makes it possible to serve clients, employers, and teams across borders. But if ... Read more
Explore the countries where migrants make up less than 1% of the population, revealing regions that have seen little international migration.
Canada’s immigration story is impossible to miss. Whenever I’m at a grocery store in a major Canadian city, there’s a 90% chance I’ll bump into a fellow immigrant—staff and shopper...
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...
Americans’ 2025 moves reveal a cooling Sun Belt migration boom and rising momentum across the Midwest.
Immigration to Finland declined in 2025 for the second consecutive year, while emigration reached the highest level since records began in 1990, according to new figures published...
Nationally, internal migration nets to zero. It always does. But where people are going - and leaving - tells you everything about housing markets, affordability, jobs and lifestyl...
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