There are expats who live in thirdieland for decades, and there are immigrants who pick fruit in firstieland for a few months and then go home. The dichotomy is strictly firstie vs. thirdie.
If that's the case, are the Indian/Paki construction workers in Dubai expats? They're working there temporarily just like the European "expats" in the Gulf states.
The real answer is that an immigrant stays indefinitely and an expat intends on leaving, having something like temporary work or education in another country.
expats are self-sufficient and spend foreign money in their host country which boosts the economy for all the natives. This counteracts increasing house prices because so many more jobs are created
immigrants compete with natives in the labour market and lower wages and also compete for housing. They often send home remittances and don't even spend their money which is absolute poison for the economy
>Where's the line between "expats" and "immigrants"?
First off, expat is short for expatriate.
The difference is the topic or subject of the sentence, or perhaps the frame of reference. You expatriate from your home country and immigrate to a foreign country, eventually turning the foreign country into your new home country. Alternatively, expatriate can be used to mean someone living in a foreign country, but the key point here is that the foreign country is still viewed as foreign, not their new home country.
>So if I'm learning Vietnamese and I want Vietnam to be my new home c**t, I'm an immigrant?
If you're learning Vietnamese and you want Vietnam to be your new home country, then you want to immigrate to Vietnam.
After you immigrate to Vietnam, then you're an immigrant.
If you illegally immigrate to Vietnam, then you're an illegal immigrant.
>expats
leech off their home country >immigrants
leech off their host country
both are bad
you should only be allowed to stay in another country for short term student exchange, and not working, marrying, settling down, etc
every race should live in their native homelands, meaning european descendants in the americas should go back to europe, africans to africa, asians to asia, indians to india, mena to mena, etc.
expats are wealthy and can move back to their old country, or a third if they want. immigrants are desperate and will do anything to stay in their current country.
hm I dont think slavs in western Europe are seen as expats...
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No one ever called Ukrainian/Albanian migrants expat
Its more like 1st world vs poorworld
albanians and ukrainians are not white
Expats are wealthy and don't intend to live permanently their new country
immigrants can be poor or wealthy and intend to stay long term
There are expats who live in thirdieland for decades, and there are immigrants who pick fruit in firstieland for a few months and then go home. The dichotomy is strictly firstie vs. thirdie.
>There are expats who live in thirdieland for decades
immigrant in denial
I'm a white expat and don't intend on ever returning home. If you call me an immigrant it would kinda seem like you were calling me a Black person.
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an expat might return to their home country one day
If that's the case, are the Indian/Paki construction workers in Dubai expats? They're working there temporarily just like the European "expats" in the Gulf states.
Yes
Expat is there temporary
an expat is an emigrant. you can't call people from your country who reside abroad immigrant
different pov
expat of x
immigrant from x
Length of time.
It depends on desire to return home, but I'd say...3 years?
Expats = Firsties working in third world c**ts
Immigrants = Thirdies working in first world c**ts
Whites: Expat, digital nomad
East asians, Indians: Immigrants
MENAs, blacks: Migrants/refugees
The real answer is that an immigrant stays indefinitely and an expat intends on leaving, having something like temporary work or education in another country.
there's none
expats are self-sufficient and spend foreign money in their host country which boosts the economy for all the natives. This counteracts increasing house prices because so many more jobs are created
immigrants compete with natives in the labour market and lower wages and also compete for housing. They often send home remittances and don't even spend their money which is absolute poison for the economy
This is in Saudi Arabia, are they both expats?
no, the guy on the left is a local.
Both are immigrants, but expats are generally people from wealthy countries going to poorer ones.
About Fitzpatrick 2.5
>Where's the line between "expats" and "immigrants"?
First off, expat is short for expatriate.
The difference is the topic or subject of the sentence, or perhaps the frame of reference. You expatriate from your home country and immigrate to a foreign country, eventually turning the foreign country into your new home country. Alternatively, expatriate can be used to mean someone living in a foreign country, but the key point here is that the foreign country is still viewed as foreign, not their new home country.
So if I'm learning Vietnamese and I want Vietnam to be my new home c**t, I'm an immigrant?
>So if I'm learning Vietnamese and I want Vietnam to be my new home c**t, I'm an immigrant?
If you're learning Vietnamese and you want Vietnam to be your new home country, then you want to immigrate to Vietnam.
After you immigrate to Vietnam, then you're an immigrant.
If you illegally immigrate to Vietnam, then you're an illegal immigrant.
Expat: person who contributes to the local economy
Immigrant: "person" who leeches off the hard working native population
>expats
leech off their home country
>immigrants
leech off their host country
both are bad
you should only be allowed to stay in another country for short term student exchange, and not working, marrying, settling down, etc
every race should live in their native homelands, meaning european descendants in the americas should go back to europe, africans to africa, asians to asia, indians to india, mena to mena, etc.
does it matter by ethnicity if you're same race/religion/etc.
expats are wealthy and can move back to their old country, or a third if they want. immigrants are desperate and will do anything to stay in their current country.